5 (It is advised that you read the supplement to this chapter before attempting this question.) Your company has developed a simple, but amazingly effective mango peeler. It is constructed from a blade and a supergrip handle that has a top piece and a bottom piece. The assembled mango peeler is packed in a simple recycled card pack. All the parts simply clip together and are bought in from suppliers, which can deliver the parts within one week of orders being placed. Given enough parts, your company can produce products within a day of firm orders being placed. Initial forecasts indicate that demand will be around 500 items per week. You and your suppliers all work 5-day weeks.

(a) Draw the component structure for the product.

(b) Draw up an MRP table (similar to Figure¦14.12 in the supplement to this chapter) assuming that the economic order quantity (EOQ) for all parts is 500.

(c) Develop a schedule indicating when and how many of each component should be ordered (your scheduler tells you that, actually, the EOQ for all parts is 1,500).