Sales of hair dryers at the walgreens stores in youngstown, ohio, over the past 4 months have been 100, 110, 120, and 130 units (with 130 beging the most recent sales). develop a moving-average forecast for next month, using these techniques: (a) 3-month moving average. (b) 4-month moving average. (c) weighted 4-month moving average with most recent month weighted 1 0.4, the preceding month weighted 0.3, then 0.2, and the oldest month weighted 0.1. (d)

Why are the four primary service outputs of spatial convenience, lot size, waiting time, and product variety important to logistics management? provide examples of competing firms that differ in the level of each service output provided to customers?

There is a small, family-owned store that sells food and household goods in a small town. the owners have good relations with the community, especially with local farmers who supply much of the food. the farmers aren't organized into a cooperative or union, and the store deals with each individually. suppose the store wanted to buy some farms to control the supply of certain vegetables. how would you classify this strategic move? select one: a. horizontal integration b. forward integration c. backward integration d. concentric integration

The purpose of the transportation approach for location analysis is to minimize which of the following? a. total costsb. total fixed costsc. the number of shipmentsd. total shipping costse. total variable costs