Which of the following benefits of setup reduction is most immediate?

If a company would like to build up inventory to meet an expected seasonal demand, the inventory increase would first be loaded to the:

For each product family, the number of units that can possibly be produced each month should be determined. This should be done by:

The person responsible for driving the sales and operations process should be the:

Listed below is the demand history for a product. If exponential smoothing is used with an alpha factor of .30, what would be the forecast for April?
Average: 100 units
January: 110 units
February: 120 units
March: 90 units

A data point which differs significantly from other data points can be defined as a(an):

Which of the following best explains the use of a tracking signal?

At times, data used to forecast will be of poor quality. Which of the following would be the correct action for the stated data quality problem?
I. Filter and adjust for abnormal demand
II. Accept data omissions and plan around them
III. Accept normal variations in the data
IV. Substitute for data omissions

The production forecast:

Listed below is the history of demand for a product.
Forecast for May: 100
Actual May: 150
Actual June: 155
Actual July: 140
Actual August: 153
Using single exponential smoothing with an alpha of .10, what would the smoothed average be at the end of August?

What should the level of accuracy be in a forecast?