A company uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly sales of its product, which show a

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A company uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly sales of its product, which show a trend pattern. At the end of week 5, the company wants to forecast sales for week 6. The trend through week 4 has been twenty additional cases sold per week. Average sales have been eighty-five cases per week. The demand for week 5 was ninety cases. The company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. Make a forecast including trend for week 6.
The smoothing of the trend is?
(Round your answers to 1 decimal place, the tolerance is +/- 0.3)

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Operations Management

ISBN: 978-0470325049

4th edition

Authors: R. Dan Reid, Nada R. Sanders

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