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CAPSTONE: Inventory Estimation

Dear Readers, This article will focus on inventory estimation in CAPSIM. I would like to mention that all articles will only lead you to better "estimation" and not the accurate numbers. At the end of the article I have also provided references to other procedures as well. Parameters required from Capstone Courier: 1. Total Industry Unit Demand                     - TIUD    (Every segment analysis page) 2. Next Years Segment Growth Rate            - SGR      (Every segment analysis page) 3. Potential Market Share % per segment     - PMS     (Page 10 of courier) Now take the product of all these 3 per segment: [A] Pessimistic Value = 90% (TIUD x SGR x PMS) [B] Actual Value = TIUD x SGR x PMS [A] is what you shall use in Marketing page and [B] is what you shall use in Production page in all rounds of your game. We have achieved 95% accuracy with this formula and only in 2 rounds we were having surplus units / inventory. Note #1 : Based on your competitors prod