Question

Bradley's Copiers sells and repairs photocopy machines. The manager needs weekly forecasts of service calls so that he can schedule service personnel. Use the actual demand in the first period for the forecast for the first week so error measurement begins in the second week. The manager uses exponential smoothing with α- 0.4. Forecast the number of calls for week 6, which is next week. Week Actual Service Calls 28 34 3 38 4 23 25 5 The forecast for week 6 is service calls. (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.) (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places) Bold Vision, Inc., makes laser printer and photocopier toner cartridges. The demand rate is 625 EP cartridges per week. The production rate is 1,722 EP cartridges per week, and the setup cost is $90. The value of inventory is $140 per unit, and the holding cost is 20 percent of the inventory value. Bold Vision operates 52 weeks per year. What is the economic production lot size? The economic production lot size is cartridges. (Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.) A fabrication cell at Spradley's Sprockets uses the pull method to supply gears to an assembly line. George Jitson is in charge of the assembly line, which requires 567 gears per day. Containers typically wait 0.3 day in the fabrication cell. Each container holds 35 gears, and one container requires 0.7 day in machine time. Setup times are negligible. If the policy variable for unforeseen contingencies is set at 0.04, how many containers should Jitson authorize for the gear replenishment system? Jitson should authorizecontainers. (Enter your response rounded up to the next whole number.)

Answer 1

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