3. Case Study

A small company has commissioned you to develop a useful spreadsheet modelling tool to support their

demand forecasting on a weekly basis. The tool will be used by the Operations Manager who needs

forecasts of demand for 1-4 weeks ahead to help him plan production. He also needs a useful way of

monitoring the performance of forecasts that he can use in weekly and monthly management reports

since this information will help inform inventory policies, for example.

Data and Information

To build, test and demonstrate the use of your modelling tool, the Operations Manager has made

available the data in the spreadsheet "MS924 resit assignment data and can be downloaded from

myplace page folder.