Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document, answer each of the essay questions 1 page per questions; APA formatted and 5% similarity.Make sure you use adequate, credible and reliable APA source 3-5 citations to support your work.
A. Manufacturing, planning and control (MPC) environment is defined by customer order decoupling point. Define each environment and give an example of each. (1 page)
B. In forecasting, MacDonald's Wing® discovered that when it opened its store to the public, it was able to sell 5,000 parachutes in the first year. Given the equation; y=a+bx. Where ‘y' represents the number of sales and ‘a' is the number they started with (200), what is the slope of this equation after 2 years?(slope is b) (1page)