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3 Peak order at week 14 caused by week 13 and 14 incoming orders and zero inventory. We also considering
potential further big order or another incoming order peak
4 The direction changes caused by inventory level rising up and order pattern that stable and looks like
going down.
Checking Forecasting
our prev.
Start shipment’s
upcoming End
backlog order
Checking
Checking our Placing
our current previous new
inventory incoming order
order
When we are going to place the order, we take a look several aspects
1. We are checking our current inventory after prev. shipment
This is a regular process that has been taken by most organizations
2. We are checking our prev. shipment’s backlog
We need to take a look our backlog to ensure how many
excess stock that we should have to avoid backlog
3. We are checking our prev. incoming order
We need to take care of order history data as an input for forecasting
4. We do forecasting upcoming order
Since we have our beer demand history, we are forecasting order until 1-2 weeks later
5. We aer placing the order