Problem 3 [25 points]: [You must use Excel]: Florida Dairies…
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Prоblem 3 [25 pоints]: [Yоu must use Excel]: Floridа Dаiries, Inc. supplies milk to severаl retailers throughout the state of Florida. Demand data for its Branded Milk (in million gallons) for the previous 12 months is as follows: Month Demand (million gallons) 1 2.80 2 2.90 3 3.05 4 3.30 5 3.10 6 2.95 7 3.00 8 3.20 9 3.15 10 2.75 11 3.10 12 3.25 Note: You should be able to copy-paste the above table into an Excel worksheet. If you have any issues, type the numbers into the sheet yourself and perform the analysis. Use proper tables (templates) that I have demonstrated in my recordings as I taught you while teaching the topic. a) Enter the data into Excel. Plot the time series. What pattern do you observe in the historical data? [3 points] b) Use the following three methods and prepare three forecasting tables with errors for the given demand data . [3 + 3 + 3 = 9 points] 3-month Moving Average (3m-MA) method; Exponential Smoothing method with smoothing constant = 0.4; 2-month Moving Average (2m-WMA) method with the weights 0.7 and 0.3 (with the higher weight going to the most recent data point); c) Calculate the demand for month 13 for all the three methods. [3 points] d) Calculate Forecast Accuracy Measures – MAD (or MAE), MSE, and MAPE. [5 points] e) Recommend the best method among the above three for implementation. What was your basis for such a recommendation? [2 points] f) Plot the time series with Demand and Forecasts under the above three methods tried? Make a statement on what you observe from the Demand time series plot with the three forecasts. [3 points]
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