How can risk mitigation help increase security

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Question 1.

The owner of a Chocolate Outlet Store wants to forecast chocolate demandDemand for the preceding 4 years is shown in the following table:

Year	1	2	3	4
Demand (Kilograms)	69,000	71,500	74,900	70,800

Forecast demand for Year 5 using the following approaches:

(1) A three-year simple moving average
(2) A three-year weighted moving average using 0.35 for Year 4, 0.30 for Year 3, and 0.35 for Year 2.
(3) Simple exponential smoothing with α = 0.35 and assuming the forecast for Period 1 = 69,000

Question 2. What key factors need to be considered in supply chain integration and how can risk mitigation help increase security?

Question 3. In two consecutive years a warehouse had the following characteristics.

	Year 2014	Year 2015
Weight of materials moved	6000 tonnes	7000 tonnes
Number of orders satisfied	1750	1930
Number of stockouts	91	60
Average inventory value stocked	$256,500	$293,000
Cost of administration	$65,000	$77,000
Hours worked	13,000	16,000
Direct costs	$120,000	$180,000
Energy used	22,000kWh	25,000kWh
Energy cost	$3,000	$4,000

Based on the information above - what can you say about its performance?

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