Asurvey of buyers’ intentions forecast involves : starting with the last known value of the item being forecast, listing the factors that could affect the forecast, assessing whether they have a positive or negative impact, and making the final forecast. making decisions without any intervening steps. asking prospective customers if they are likely to buy the product during some future time period. asking the firm’s sales people to estimate sales during a coming period. selecting the forecasting alternative that would allow a firm to survive financially even if the forecasts were totally incorrect.

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600

Nnette henri is paid an hourly wage of $8.90 for a 32-hour workweek of 4 days, 8 hours daily. for any work on the fifth day and on saturdays, she is paid one and one-half times her regular hourly rate. during a certain week, in addition to her regular 32 hours, henri worked 6 hours on the fifth day and 5 hours on saturday. for this workweek, henri’s total earnings are:

Erp has all the following advantages except: modules throughout a corporation can communicate with each other while purchasing is difficult, the vendors such as sap make it worthwhile due to easy implementation have predefined software that represents "pretty good practices" or even "best practices" enables standardized procedures in an organization reduces inconsistent data stored in various locations of the organization