Questions from Management Science

Q: The Northwoods Outdoor Company is a catalog sales operation that specializes in

The Northwoods 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...

Q: Metro Food Vending operates vending machines in office buildings, the airport

Metro Food Vending operates vending machines in office buildings, the airport, bus stations, colleges, and other businesses and agencies around town, and it operates vending trucks for building and co...

Q: Dubai-fly airline operates flights from Dubai to Milan. The

Dubai-fly airline operates flights from Dubai to Milan. The demand for airline seats varies from month to month. There are few peak seasonal demands, for instance, just before and after Christmas and...

Q: LT manufactures smartphone components, which are dependent on the global demand

LT manufactures smartphone components, which are dependent on the global demand for smart- phones. Following are the yearly global sales (in million units) for the past 8 years. Develop a linear trend...

Q: A manufacturing company produces different variations of a product at different work

A manufacturing company produces different variations of a product at different work centers in its plant on a daily basis. Following is a network showing the various work centers in the plant, the da...

Q: The McDonald’s store at a busy mall has collected its last 10

The McDonald’s store at a busy mall has collected its last 10 months’ sales (in thousands of meal) data for its fast selling a la carte meal—The F...

Q: The emergency room at the new Community Hospital selected every other week

The emergency room at the new Community Hospital selected every other week during the past 5 months to observe the number of patients during two parts of each week—the weekend (Frida...

Q: Aztec Industries has developed a forecasting model that was used to forecast

Aztec Industries has developed a forecasting model that was used to forecast during a 10-month period. The forecasts and actual demand were as follows: Measure the accuracy of the forecast by using MA...

Q: RAP Computers assembles personal computers from generic parts it purchases at a

RAP Computers assembles personal computers from generic parts it purchases at a discount, and it sells the units by phone orders it receives from customers responding to the company’...

Q: Develop an exponential smoothing forecast with a = .20 for the

Develop an exponential smoothing forecast with a = .20 for the demand data in Problem 1. Compare this forecast with the 3-month moving average computed in part (a) of Problem 1, using MAD, and indicat...