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1250 word essay with 3 references

Read through the Case Study entitled “M&L Manufacturing” in Chapter 3 of your textbook. Examine the historical trend this company has experienced for the two products discussed. Prepare weekly forecasts for the next four weeks for both products, describe the forecasting method you chose and explain why that forecasting method is best suited to the scenario. Explain why you did, or did not, choose the same forecasting method for each product. What are the benefits of using a formalized approach to forecasting these products?

Be sure to use at least two current, scholarly references beyond any required course readings. Current sources are those published within the most recent five-year period, and scholarly sources are those from peer-reviewed journals.

Make certain for each listed reference that you have at least one supporting citation in the body of your content. Your reference page is always the last page of the submission where all individual references get listed. The Saudi Digital Library is a good resource to search for these references. Submit your presentation into the Assignment Dropbox.

Case Study:

M&L Manufacturing makes various components for printers and copiers.

In addition to supplying these items to a major manufacturer, the

company distributes these and similar items to office supply stores and

computer stores as replacement parts for printers and desktop copiers.

In all, the company makes about 20 different items. The two markets

(the major manufacturer and the replacement market) require somewhat

different handling. For example, replacement products must be packaged

individually whereas products are shipped in bulk to the major

manufacturer.

The company does not use forecasts for production planning. Instead,

the operations manager decides which items to produce and the batch

size, based on orders and the amounts in inventory. The products that

have the fewest amounts in inventory get the highest priority. Demand is

uneven, and the company has experienced being overstocked on some

items and out of others. Being understocked has occasionally created

tensions with the managers of retail outlets. Another problem is that

prices of raw materials have been creeping up, although the operations

manager thinks that this might be a temporary condition.

Because of competitive pressures and falling profits, the manager

has decided to undertake a number of changes. One change is to introduce

more formal forecasting procedures in order to improve production

planning and inventory management.

With that in mind, the manager wants to begin forecasting for two

products. These products are important for several reasons. First, they

account for a disproportionately large share of the company’s profits.

Second, the manager believes that one of these products will become

increasingly important to future growth plans; and third, the other product

has experienced periodic out-of-stock instances.

The manager has compiled data on product

demand for the two products from order records

for the previous 14 weeks. These are shown in the following table.

Week Product 1 Product 2

1 50 40

2 54 38

3 57 41

4 60 46

5 64 42

6 67 41

7 90 * 41

8 76 47

9 79 42

10 82 43

11 85 42

12 87 49

13 92 43

14 96 44

*Unusual order due to flooding of customer’s warehouse.

Questions

1. What are some of the potential benefits of a more formalized

approach to forecasting?

2. Prepare a weekly forecast for the next four weeks for each product.

Briefly explain why you chose the methods you used. ( Hint: For

product 2, a simple approach, possibly some sort of naive/intuitive

approach, would be preferable to a technical approach in view of the

manager’s disdain of more technical methods.)

I have a picture of an artifact and I want some information about it ( I will attach screen shot for the artifact from the book )

1- Research the artifact

First, use your textbook as a guide for basic info. You must also find ONE

QUALITY SOURCE to cite about the artifact.

Quality sources are often found easily in books and databases. A quality web source is an educational or museum website, or an online publication that is written by authorities in the field or professional journalists. Quality websites are concerned with aspects of education rather than sales. For instance, blogs written by scholars. Quality web sources have named authors.

2- Find the following information about the artifact:

Name of artifact:

Date (or approx. date) of creation

Creator (if known)

Geographic region of origin:

Material:

Size (if known):

Original use:

What material / social / political / global factors impacted your artifact’s creation?

How do these these factors manifest today in contemporary artifacts?

Nursing research is used to study a dilemma or a problem in nursing. Examine a problem you have seen in nursing. Why should it be studied? Justify your rationale.