Technology and information management
S. Desa, CSE 171B/270B
01/30/2020
HW#4
Adaptive Forecasting and Cycle Inventory
Midterm: will be handed to you in class on 5 February, 2020
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Reading: SCM Text, 4th Edition, Chapter 10 (Managing Economies of Scale), Sections1-4; Chapter 16 (Information Technology), Sections 1, 2; Chapter 17 (Coordination), Section 1 (Bullwhip Effect); Chapter 11 (Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain), Section 1, 2.
Homework Problems (due Thursday, 6 February, 2020). Homework must be turned-in on-time to be eligible for full credit.
Problem Solving: Please use your problem-solving template to solve each problem.
Qualitative Problems:
1. Cycle Inventory: SCM, 4th, D10.1, 10.2, D10.3
Quantitative Problems:
2. Tahoe Salt (Chapter 7 continued) Forecast demand using the: Holt and Winter Adaptive Forecasting methods. Your solutions should match the solutions in the book.
3. Hot Pizza, Chapter 7, Exercise 2.
4. Flower Wholesaler, Chapter 7, Exercise 3
5. ABC Corporation: SCM, Chapter 7, Exercise 4 (Do “Winter’s Method” only.)
6. Harley Davidson: SCM, Chapter 10, Exercises 1, 2
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