A Company Wants to Forecast Demand Using the Weighted Moving

question 43

Short Answer

A company wants to forecast demand using the weighted moving average.If the company uses two prior yearly sales values ,and we want to weight year 2012 at 35% and year 2013 at 65%,what is the weighted moving average forecast for Year 2014? __________________________________________

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