Case Study: Sport Obermeyer
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What items should be produced in what quantities at each location, before the Las Vegas show this
year? Briefly describe your reasoning. Your analysis should include considerations of the
differences between locations (Hong Kong vs. China), the impacts of the minimum order
quantities, and other product characteristics given in the case. You must provide specific names of
products, the number to produce of each product and the location of production for each product
prior to the Las Vegas trade show.
Since the deviation removed from the forecasted demand gives the actual demand, we calculated
the accuracy as a percentage of the deviation with the forecasted demand [Refer formula 1.1]. Based on
the accuracy percentage, we categorized the styles into high, medium and low accuracy [Refer Exhibit
1]. The styles that have accuracy ranging between 0 and 40% were categorized as low accuracy, 41 to
65% as medium accuracy and 66 to 100% as high accuracy. We decided to produce based on the
