a) Using a 2-month moving average, the forecast for periods 11 and 12 is (round your responses to two decimal places): Month Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Forecast $1.76 1.61 1.73 1.87 1.92 1.98 1.93 1.75

Use the following data to determine the tracking signal for period 4.   Actual Forecast 10 16 23 16 50 49 63 59 108 106 122 118 ​   a. 1.333   b. 1.108   c. 0.742   d. 0.429

Given the following original forecast and actual data: Month Actual Forecast Jan 600 Feb 475 Mar 550 Apr 575 May 643 Jun 662 Jul ??? ??? Using a 2 month weighted moving average with weights of 75% for the previous month and 25% for two months back, what is the forecast for July. Round your answer to 1 decimal place. 400 -- —— ——

Given the following historical data, what is the simple three-period moving average forecast for period 6? Period 1 2 3 4 5 67.67 68.2 67.3 68.4 Value 73 66 64 73 66

Given the following original forecast and actual data: Month Actual Forecast Jan 600 Feb 475 Mar 550 Apr 575 May 643 Jun 662 Jul ??? ??? Using a 2 month weighted moving average with weights of 75% for the previous month and 25% for two months back, what is the forecast for July. Round your answer to 1 decimal place. 400 -- —— ——

d) Using exponential smoothing with α ​= 0.40 and the forecast for year 1 being 3,000​, the forecast for year 6​ = ? miles ​(round your response to the nearest whole​ number).

In a retail store, the actual sales of a particular product (in thousands of units) over the past few months are as follows: Month Sales 1 16 2 22 3 18 4 20 5 23   Using exponential smoothing method with α (smoothing constant) of 0.75 and the given forecast for month 1 equal to 10, what is the forecast for month 6?

The Toro Cutlery Company has collected monthly sales information below: MONTH January February March April The company is examining two forecasting methods, moving average and exponential smoothing for forecasting sales. a. What will the forecast be for January the following year using a three-, four-, and five-month moving averages? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest whole number. Forecast (January, 3-month MA): 87667 Forecast (January, 4-month MA): 72500 Forecast (January, 5-month MA): 69600 b. What will the forecast be for January the following year using exponential smoothing with a = 0.6? Assume the forecast for February this year is 25,000. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. SALES 25,000 18,000 43,000 110,000 MONTH May June July August SALES MONTH 84,000 September 28,000 October 97,000 November 58,000 December SALES 27,000 105,000 82,000 76,000

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a. Use a 3-month moving average to estimate the month-in-advance forecast of demand for months 4–12 and generate a forecast for the first month of next year. Calculate the average forecast error and mean absolute error. b.   Use a 3-month weighted moving average with weights of 0.6, 0.3, 0.1 (most recent to least recent, respectively) to calculate month-in-advance forecasts for months 4–12 and forecast for the first month of next year. Calculate the average forecast error and mean absolute error. c.   Compare the average forecast error and MAD for the forecasting methods in parts a and b. Based on these error calculations, which of the two forecast methods would you recommend? Why?