Operations Management

Question 1

A  naive forecast for September sales of a product would be equal to the forecast for august

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true

Question 2

The forecasting time horizon and the forecasting techniques used tend to vary over the life cycle of a product

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true

Question 3

Demand(sales) forecast serve as inputs to financial, marketing, and personnel planning.

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true

Question 4

Forecast of individual products tend to be more accurate than forecast of product families

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true

Question 5

Most forecasting models assume that there is an underlying stability in the system

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true

Question 6

The sales force composite forecasting method relies on salespersons' estimate of expected sales

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true

Question 7

A time series model uses a series of past data points to make the forecast

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true

Question 8

The quarterly "make-meeting"  of Lexus dealers is an example of a sales force composite forecast.

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true

Question 9

Cycles and random variations are both components of time series.

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true

Question 10

One advantage of exponential smoothing is the limited amount of record keeping involved.

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true

Question 11

The larger the number of periods in the simple moving average forecasting method, the greater the method's responsiveness to changes in demand.

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true

Question 12

Forecasting including trend is an exponential smoothing technique that utilizes two smoothing constants: one for the average level of the forecast and one for its trend.

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true

Question 13

Mean squared error and coefficient of correlations are two measure of the overall error of a forecasting method.

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true

Question 14

In trend projection, the trend component is the slope of the regression equation.

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true

Question 15

In trend projection, a negative regression slope is mathematically impossible.

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true

Question 16

Seasonal indexes  adjust raw data for patterns that repeat at regular time intervals.

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true

Question 17

If a quarterly seasonal index has been calculated at 1.55 for the October - December quarter, then raw data for the quarter must be multiplied by 1.55 so that the quarter can be fairly compared to other quarters.

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true

Question 18

The best way to forecast a business cycle is by finding a leading variable .

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true

Question 19

Linear-regression analysis is a straight line mathematical model to describe the functional relationship between independent and dependent variables.

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true

Question 20

The larger the standard error of the estimate, the more accurate forecasting model.

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true

Question 21

Demand cycles for individual products can be driven by product life cycles.

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true

Question 22

If a forecast is consistently greater or less than actual values, the forecast is said to be biased.

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true

Question 23

Focus forecasting tries a variety of computer models and selects the best one for a particular application.

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true

Question 24

Many services firms use point of sales computers to collect detail records needed for accurate short-term forecast.

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true

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