Desh Garments Ltd.

Forecasting Questionnaire
1. What is your age?

2. What is your occupation?

3. What is your field of expertise?

4. Name the 3 most important supply chain forecasting developments for practitioners since the
beginning of Desh Garments Ltd.

5. Name the 3 most important supply chain forecasting developments for software developers
during the last 20 years.

6. In your opinion, what might be the trend/pattern of sales be like during the next Fiscal Year
for Desh Garments Ltd.?

7. What may be the probability that the companys target number of finished goods will be ALL
sold out during the upcoming Fiscal Year?

8. What is an estimate/projection of the supply of Woven Shirts in the market versus the demand
of Woven Shirts, in the next Fiscal Year?

9. In your opinion, how elastic (that is to say what extent demand varies with price/unit) is the
demand for the Woven Shirts?

10. Do you think the cost of goods sold will increase or decrease during the next year?

11. Due to the current political turmoil how adversely do you think its affecting the financial
indicators/ratios of Desh Garments Ltd.?

12. What is the estimated probability (e.g 10%, 40%, 50%) that in the next 5 years (20 quarters)
the company may face a drop in profit due to rising production costs or raw material scarcity?

13. In your opinion, what should be the minimum level of bias and forecasting error (e.g 1%, 0.5
%) for any financial forecasting method thats used?

14. What may be the estimated CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for Desh Garments
Ltd. next Fiscal year?

15. Is the current financial forecasting software used by the Desh Garments Ltd. user friendly
and does the cost of the software outweigh the benefits it provides?

16. Sir, what the estimated seasonal indexes for each quarter during the next fiscal year?
17.
The company clearly communicates its goals and strategies to me?

Strongly Disagree
Somewhat Disagree
Neutral
Somewhat Agree
Strongly Agree
N/A

18.

The company clearly communicates its goals and strategies to me?

Strongly Disagree
Somewhat Disagree
Neutral
Somewhat Agree
Strongly Agree
N/A

19.

I receive enough opportunity to interact with other employees on a formal level.

Strongly Disagree
Somewhat Disagree
Neutral
Somewhat Agree
Strongly Agree

Thank you very much for your patience and kind participation in my Internship Research
Thesis Paper Survey on Forecasting Desh Garments Ltd. All information will be kept
strictly confidential and used only in the aggregate in the resulting reports for academic
purposes.