Intro to Operations Management

Assignment Question(s): (Marks 5)
Question 2:
An Electronic Company estimates the annual demand for a certain product as follows:
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6
Demand 649 524 561 738 515 598

a. Forecast the demand for week 7 using a five-period moving average? (Marks
1.5) (word count maximum:100)
b. Forecast the demand for week 7 using a three-period weighted moving average.
Use the following weights: W1 = .4, W2 = .4, W3 = .2 (Marks 1.5) (word count
maximum:100)
c. Forecast the demand for week 7 using exponential smoothing. Use α value of .1
and assume the forecast for week 6 was 602 units? (Marks 1.5) (word count
maximum:100)
d. What assumptions are made in each of the above forecasts? (Marks 0.5) (word
count maximum:150)