The Outdoor Company is a catalog sales operation that specializes in outdoor recreational clothing. Demand for its items is very seasonal, peaking during the Christmas season and during the spring. It has accumulated the following data for orders per season (quarter) during the past 5 years: Quarter Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul - Sep Oct-Dec 1 22.60 28.50 24.40 43.90 2 19.10 29.70 23.50 47.30 Orders (1,000s)/Year 3 4 26.40 25.20 32.80 28.60 24.00 26.40 47.50 49.10 5 28.50 34.00 27.70 55.80 Average Demad per Quarter a. Calculate the overall average demad. b. Calculate the average demad per quarter in the space given in the above table. c. Calculate the seasonal index in the space given in the above table. Seasonal Index

1) Assume that you are a manager of one of the hotels in the UAE. As you know, UAE has an excellent weather from October to April, so the room occupancy rate is high during this period. However, the occupancy rate becomes low during the period from May to September due to the hot weather and this happens every year. Based on the above information: 1- What is type of demand state that you face in this situation? Explain it? 2- And explain how can you manage this demand state in detail? 2) In this course, you were requested to provide relevant recommendations to intensive growth strategies for a selected hotel of your choice in the UAE, write a report to explain each one of them and show their relevant recommendations as follows: 1- Market penetration strategy (explain and write recommendations) 2- Market development strategy (explain and write recommendations) 3- Product development strategy (explain and write recommendations) 4- Related diversification strategy (explain and write…

Josh Smith, the materials manager at a retail store, has determined that a particular product experienced 5 turns last year, with an annual sales volume of $15 million. What was the average inventory value for this product last year? $2.5 million $2.75 million $3 million $5 million

Please answer b

As with other products, Fisher-Price faces the decision of how many Weather Teddy units to order for the comingholiday season. Members of the management team suggested order quantities of 15,000, 18,000, 24,000, or28,000 units. The wide range of order quantities suggested indicates considerable disagreement concerning themarket potential. The product management team asks you for an analysis of the stock-out probabilities forvarious order quantities, an estimate of the profit potential, and to help make an order quantity recommendation.Fisher-Price expects to sell Weather Teddy for $24 based on a cost of $16 per unit. If inventory remains afterthe holiday season, Fisher-Price will sell all surplus inventory for $5 per unit. After reviewing the sales historyof similar products, Fisher-Price’s senior sales forecaster predicted an expected demand of 20,000 units with a.95 probability that demand would be between 10,000 units and 30,000 units. Question: One of Fisher-Price’s managers felt…

.Substitue for Mandatory problem #2 on exam in attachment )-Calculate the Tracking Signal(RSFE/MAD t) given the following data and an alpha=0.4.MAD t-1=15: Period     Actual Demand  Forecast Demand      Error ...................                              RSFE          MAD t      TS 0                   Start  up                    Start Up                               Start Up                                           15 1                   30                               45 2                   43 3                   38 4                   37 5                   40

Both questions are wrong

Problem 7 Lynne Chappell manages the inventory of supplies in a large hospital. To determine which items should be closely monitored, Lynne decided to use the ABC classification schemeto group the items on the basis of their value. Asthe following table shows, she took a random sample of20 items and recorded the annual usage and unit cost ofeach. How should each item be classified?Inventory Item               Unit cost(in U.S.dollars)            AnnualUsageP21  $80 800A12  $400 70K43  $50 100S54 $60 90C25 $50 130D76 $30 170E27 $20 200F38 $300 90H19 $520 120Q10 $10 100R82 $20 80G65 $80 70L71 $220 200M94  $70 80V45 $15 60T62 $30 180I17 $20 80W22 $300 90O37 $700 85N88 $5 100