Essays on Forecasting Page 2

Pasta Purchased Lambert’s Pasta & Cheese Challenge – Needed to find a brand name; Discovered Contadina through focus groups and settled on Contadina Fresh. Performed BASES I study to evaluate the current level of awareness and usage of fresh pasta and sauces. NRFC aimed to estimate trial volume for the first year, simulate total year…

When you order an item from an L.L. Bean catalog and we’re out of stock, I’m the guy to blame. And if we end up liquidating a bunch of women’s wool cashmere blazers, it’s my fault. No one understands how tough it is.” Mark Fasold, Vice President—Inventory Management, was describing the challenge of item forecasting…

Paul Jordan was given the assignment by his supervisor to analyze cell phone orders from the past three years. The goal was to use innovative planning techniques to predict future orders for a period of 6 to 12 months and suggest production recommendations. We chose regression analysis as our approach for forecasting cell phone orders…

Management Control Systems Case 4-1 Vershire Company The case 4-1 deals with the control system, budgeting process and performance measurement of Vershire Company, a large business in the metal can industry. Vershire experienced a strong pressure as they have to meet the customers` expectations about quality, customer service and prices because otherwise they will take…

The last few decades have seen an extensive effort devoted to studying the herding behaviors in financial markets. Researchers have documented the economic effects of herding among peer analysts (e. g. Trueman 1994; Welch 2000), institutional investors (e.g. Grinblatt et al. 1995; Wermers 1999), and managers (e.g. Zwiebel 1995). Individuals have a tendency to conform…

The estimated $228. 9 billion in the year 20092 global household appliances market can be described as a global industry in condition that the coordination and integration of sourcing, manufacturing, operations, research and development and marketing activities across multiple world regions and countries is accomplished. Enterprises capable of harnessing the benefits of strategic global locations…