Suppose That the Demand in Period 1 Was 7 Units

question 1

Multiple Choice

Suppose that the demand in period 1 was 7 units and the demand in period 2 was 9 units. Assume that the forecast for period 1 was for 5 units. If the firm uses exponential smoothing with an alpha value of .20, what should be the forecast for period 3? (Round answers to two decimal places.)

• A) 9.00
• B) 3.72
• C) 9.48
• D) 5.00
• E) 6.12

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Definitions:

Understock Quantity

The condition when the available inventory is less than the demand, leading to potential lost sales and customer dissatisfaction.

Supply Chain

The network of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in creating and moving a product or service from supplier to customer.

Normally Distributed

A statistical term describing a distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variance or dispersion of a set of data points around the mean or average.