175 hours are required in week 4, 375 in week 5, 66 2/3 in week 6, and 125 hours
in week 7. If insufficient assembly time is available, the firm can either use
overtime or adjust the master schedule.
c. If the lead time for assembly of lamps will be extended from one to two weeks, it
will be necessary to find a way to obtain the 500 bases and 700 necks required to
the 2 week lead time for frames compressed.
8. a. 200 phones can be delivered from inventory in week 1, 250 can be assembled from
handset and base subassemblies and delivered in week 2, and 125 can be assembled
from component parts and delivered in week 3.
Materials Plan: