The Remington Manufacturing Company has a plant in Fort Worth, Texas. Product A is shipped from the firm's plant warehouse in Fort Worth to satisfy demand in California. Currently, the sales forecast for product A at the Fort Worth plant is 80 units per week. The master production scheduler at Fort Worth considers product A to be a make to stock item for master scheduling purposes. Currently, 120 units of product A are on hand in the Fort Worth plant warehouse. Desired safety stock level is 40 units for this product. Product A is produced on a lot-for-lot basis. Currently, an order for 80 units is being produced and is due for delivery to the plant warehouse on Monday, one week from today. An MRP record that uses the forecast for gross requirements and has a lead time of zero can be used for master production scheduling. Complete the following MRP record. How can this be used for master production scheduling?

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WEEK PRODUCT A 4 Gross requirements Scheduled receipts Projected available balance Planned order release Q-lot for lot; LT = 0; SS = 40