Acme Corporation sells hammers and other tools to Blue's Hardware Store. Suppose that Acme, which is the only supplier of a specific type of hammer that Blue's sells, informs Blue's that it will have to purchase certain other products from Acme if it wants to continue receiving the hammers. Blue's is dismayed because these other products are costly. It has no need for these products. Acme is attempting to get Blue's to enter into .

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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