New product forecasting of appliance and consumables : bass model

Drinkworks is a joint venture between Anheuser-Busch and Keurig Green Mountain Inc. that has been formed to develop and launch a one-of-a-kind in-home alcohol drink system. One of the major challenges faced by Drinkworks before launching their new product was to predict its demand throughout the different stages of the product life-cycle. Being an emerging organization, Drinkworks needed a systematic demand planning tool to generate baseline strategic and operational forecasts of their new product. These baseline forecasts would be further used as a starting point for sales and operations planning, production planning and material resource planning. This thesis project focuses on selecting appropriate mathematical models to forecast demand of a new product throughout its life-cycle. This thesis concentrates on the use of Bass model to forecast the demand for Drinkworks' appliance in the initial launch phase with minimal market knowledge. Moreover, this thesis also explains the methodology to forecast pod consumption using the average consumption rate per appliance, cumulative appliances sold to the retailers, cluster analysis, and appliance forecast.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Babu, Keval (Keval Vipul)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stephen Graves.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132906

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/132906