How many different raw materials go into an ambulance

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Please watch the video "MRP at Wheeled Coach Ambulance" (7:43)

Based on the video and martial presented in Chapter 14, Discuss:

1. How many different raw materials go into an ambulance and to think about how those items should be managed?

2. How the MPS might look different at Wheeled Coach compared to an automobile assembly line factory such as Ford. Also, do you think that safety stock would be more important for components at Wheeled Coach or at Ford?

3. Finally, by the company president's own admission, the MRP system was very expensive.

Can you describe why having too much inventory or having obsolete inventory is such a bad thing? Did the benefits of the MRP purchase seem to outweigh the costs in this case?

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