A tourist center is open on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The owner-manager hopes to improve scheduling

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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 are shown in the following table:

WEEK 1 2 3 4 5 6 Friday 149 154 152 150 159 163 Saturday 250 255 260 268 273 276 Sunday 166 162 171 173 176 183

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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Operations Management

ISBN: 9781260575712

14th Edition

Authors: William J Stevenson

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