Quantitative Methods: Demand for Product ZXT
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Recent past demand for product ZXT is given in the following table:
Month Actual Demand
February 20
March 22
April 33
May 35
June 31
July 48
August 41
a) Determine the forecasted demand for May, June, July and August based on a three month moving average.
b) Determine the forecasted demand for May, June, July and August based on a three month weighted moving average with weights w1=.1, w2=.4, and w3=.5, where w3 is the weight for the most recent month of the three months.
c) Determine the forecasted demand for March, April, May, June, July and August based on a simple exponential smoothing with alpha (α) = 0.4.
d) Determine the forecasted demand for March, April, May, June, July and August based on an adjusted exponential smoothing with alpha (α) = .2 and beta (β) = .3.
e) Compute MAD (Mean Absolute Deviation) and MSE (Mean Squared Error) for the results from a), b), c) and d).
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