Every day managers must make decisions on future demands for their product or service. Knowing the future demand for your product is important so that staffing levels can be adjusted or more equipment

Every day managers must make decisions on future demands for their product or service. Knowing the future demand for your product is important so that staffing levels can be adjusted or more equipment and raw material procured. However, future demand is unknown, so managers turn to forecasts to make good estimates of future demand for their product or service.

Now put yourself in the shoes of the plant manager. This chart provides historical data for the past demand for your product. Your task is to apply the naïve, moving average, exponential smoothing, and trend methods of forecasting and determine which method is the most accurate.See attached file: