Assignment: Your are to build an excel math model sheet of the supermarket annual business results based on the attached sales history. The sales history file is based on a regression analysis performed by the sales business analyst department. It has Average (Mean) monthly sales from past five years.

Loyalty Card - you expect that 63% of your customers will sign up. The loyalty card will give them 4% off their sales order.

Helpful Guidelines:

For the Deterministic Model, use the Average Weekly Sales. To get discount per week, multiply each average weekly sale by the average discount of 0.63 * 0.04. Calculate new sales, and then the difference in profit margin (The cost of the Loyalty Program). Tabulate it.

For the Stochastic Model, use a Normal Distribution Curve, with the Mean being the Average Weekly Sales, and the weekly Standard Deviation being $5,000. That is, all weekly sales will fall between the Average - 3 Standard Deviation and Average + 3 Standard Deviation. For example, if average weekly says is 100,000 then the 99% of weekly sales would fall between 85,000 and 115,000. Use the RANDBETWEEN function in excel to get this random sales number. To get discount per week, once again use a RAND () function to get a 0 (no loyalty card) or a 1 (loyalty card) and calculate the random discount based on loyalty card info. Calculate new sales, and difference in profit margin (The cost of the Loyalty Program). Now, since this is a stochastic model, you need to run it three times (use the F9 function to re-calculate spreadsheet). Make sure you tabulate each iteration so you can get a MEAN of the Cost of Loyalty Program.

Calculate the new profit margin based on the results from your deterministic model and your stochastic model.

Input Data:

At checkout, 63% of customers have a loyalty card that gives them 4% off their raw order amount.

Normal Distribution - Mean Weekly Sales, with a Standard Deviation of $5000

ZOOM + Supermarket Calendar Week Average Sales in $ ('000s) Average Weekly Sales over 5 years 1 $350.00 Normal Distribution $360.00 standard Deviation $350.00 3Sigma Mininmum 44.5% of Sales 15 $380.00 3Sigma Maximum 44.5% of Sales $370.00 Probability of Loyalty Card $380.00 Discount Loyalty Card 0 04 $350.00 $380.00 $360.00 $330.00 $350.00 $390.00 $390.00 $380.0 $350.00 $340.00 $380.00 $400.00 $360.00 $510.00 $500.00 $380.00 $390.00 $370.00 $360.00 $370.00 $550.00 $480.00 $380.00 $350.00 $330.00 $340.00 $380.00 $360.0 $390.00 $340.0 $370.00 $350.0 $370.00 $330.0 $340.00 $320.00 $380.00 $360.0 $480.00 $510.00 $550.00 $550.00 $400.00 $500.00 $480.00 $550.00