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Figure 3.Demand for the 10th product
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Figure 4. Demand for the 50th product
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Toner Cartridge Manufacturer
The second manufacturer specializes in generic photocopier and laser printer toner cartridges and other
related products. The geographic scope is of the data is North America. The demand data extracted
from the ERP system represents a total of 65 periods of data. Again only the top hundred products were
retained for the experiment since they are considered most important. Since the total number of active
products in their system is 3369, these 100 products represent less than 3 percent of all products. How-