10. The XYZ Company uses MRP to plan and schedule plant operations. The plant operates five days...

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10. The XYZ Company uses MRP to plan and schedule plant operations. The plant operates five days per week with no overtime, and all orders are due at 8 a.m. Monday of the week required. It’s now 8 a.m. Monday of week 1, all machines are currently idle, and the production manager has been given the information in Exhibit B.

a. Assuming that the shortest operation next rule is used to schedule orders in the shop, how should the open orders (scheduled receipts) for items A, B, and C be sequenced at their current operations? What are the implications of this schedule?

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Manufacturing Planning And Control For Supply Chain Management

ISBN: 9780073377827

6th Edition

Authors: F. Robert Jacobs, William Berry, David Clay Whybark, Thomas Vollmann

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