Lever is an apparel manufacturer. The management at Lever prefers moderate control over the operations of the different departments such as R&D, design, marketing, and sales. It allocates a budget to each function at the beginning of each quarter. This is an example of implementing control through

B)  input controls.

Explanation:

Input-output control is used to control a company's or department's workflow. Input control can be applied to both services and manufacturing processes. When applied to manufacturing processes management changes the number of inputs to control total output.

In this case, input control is used in departments that perform services. Money acts as the input in this scenario, and the system deals with their budget and is expected to generate certain output according to the budget assigned. Each quarter the budget is adjusted according to the department's performance.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.