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Loyalist College Calculating the Ending Inventory Exercise

 

For the following data, calculate the number of workers required for level production and the resulting month-end inventories. Each worker can produce 9 units per day, and the desired ending inventory is 800 units. Calculatingtheending inventory and explain why is it not possible to meet the ending inventory target? Any suggestions you can recommend to achieve the ending inventory number?

month 1 2 3 4 5 6 total

working days 20 24 12 22 20 19

forecast demand 2800 3000 2700 3300 2900 3200

planned production

planned inventory 1000