In addition, the steel company had told TMX Medical that they would make only one batch of the steel and only once a year. The time and effort to make the furnace ready, in combination with the costly chemicals used to make the steel, meant that the steel was extremely expensive for TMX to buy. The steel mill made the steel reluctantly, since it required shutting down a furnace and completely cleaning it out in order to avoid contamination.

The TMX27 family of devices was used by customers in highly stressful applications, and as a result, they needed to be made from highly specialized steel, made with a complex mixture of chemicals. That fairly routine task went fine until he came to the TMX27 family of devices. Jack, as materials manager for TMX Medical, was responsible for taking the forecast and translating it into projected production needs and, as part of that, requirements for raw material purchasing needs-both in quantities and dates. Jack Bower found himself in a real dilemma when the sales and marketing department presented him with the annual sales demand forecast for one of the gear lines. Forecasting Product Demand– TMX Medical Company

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