9609 Business June 2025 Question Paper 31

3 (a) Using the data in Table 1.1, calculate the average monthly labour productivity for January to May 2025 [2]

(b) Using the data in Table 1.1, calculate the percentage of output that failed to meet quality standards for January to May 2025 [2]

(c) Evaluate the best approach for WS to improve the performance of its production employees , , [12] , ,

2 Analyse two ways that enterprise resource planning (ERP) could improve the efficiency of WS [8] , ,

1 Analyse two advantages to WS of using an environmental audit [8]

4 (a) (i) Using the data in Table 1.2, calculate the average seasonal variation for Quarter 4 [2]

(ii) Jon has calculated the trend for 2025 Quarter 4 as $21.41 million.

Using your answer to (a)(i), calculate forecast sales for 2025 Quarter 4 [2]

(b) Evaluate whether time series analysis is sufficient to allow WS to make decisions to achieve its marketing objective , , [12] , ,