Sport Obermeyer currently has a problem with matching supply with demand. Right as you begin to read the case-study, you notice how far in advance they must predict what styles are going to be popular and how much to produce. The difficult part is, they must do this almost two years in advance and hope their forecasting is close enough to what the actual demand ends up being. To make matters even more complicated, as Sport Obermeyer is forecasting for the next season, little data is available about how the current season's clothing line is doing. So the possibility exists that an incorrect forecast could be costly in both the current season sales and the future season projected sales.
Wally has two options available: having one production run for all the styles, or having two productions runs split between the styles (known as "Quick Response with Reactive Capacity." By using the Buying Committee's forecast for the sample of 10 women's parkas, we can come up with an optimal......

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Title: Sport Obermeyer
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