Answer part ( B )

A group of 4 students from the course of Supply Chain decided to start a small business next week to generate additional income, the business is to sell healthy meals to the students within UBT's campus. The data in the table was obtained from similar concept which was implemented last semester for a private university in Jeddah. Week Demand 92 Demand 110 118 119 Week 5 6 7 8 115 Week 9 10 11 12 Demand 118 106 95 93 90 106 134 -Actual Demand Healthy Meals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Periods 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 B) What are forecasted meals for the upcoming 4-weeks? Use simple exponential smoothing method for simplification @ Q = 0.1 Lo SD , Le+1 = a De+1 + (1 - a)L , Fe+1 = Le and Feen = Le Period-weeks Demand Level Forecast Actual demand Error 2 3 110 118 119 134 92 115 108 108 109 110 5 L12=? 90 106 118 106 113 110 111 109 109 110 109 108 95 93 12 101 L13: L14 L15: F13: F14: FIS: 119 106 E13: E14: E15: E16: al L16: F:16 91