Operations Management
Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 14P

A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-manager hopes to improve scheduling of part-time employees by determining seasonal relatives for each of these days. Data on recent traffic at the center have been tabulated and art shown in the following table.

Chapter 3, Problem 14P, A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-manager hopes to

a. Develop seasonal relatives for the shop using the centered moving average method.

b. Develop seasonal relatives for the shop using the SA method (see Example 8B)

c. Explain why the results of the two methods correlate the way they do.

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