Business Driven Technology 6th Edition by Paige Baltzan

تمرين 38

Shipping Costs
One of the main products of the Fairway Woods Company is custom-made golf clubs. The clubs are manufactured at three plants (Denver, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; and Dallas, Texas) and are then shipped by truck to five distribution warehouses in Sacramento, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Chicago, Illinois; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and New York City, New York. Because shipping costs are a major expense, management has begun an analysis to determine ways to reduce them. For the upcoming golf season, the output from each manufacturing plant and how much each warehouse will require to satisfy its customers have been estimated.
The CIO from Fairway Woods Company has created a data file for you, AYK17_Data. xlsx, of the shipping costs from each manufacturing plant to each warehouse as a baseline analysis. Some business rules and requirements you should be aware of include:
The problem presented involves the shipment of goods from three plants to five regional warehouses.
Goods can be shipped from any plant to any warehouse, but it costs more to ship goods over long distances than over short distances.
Project Focus
1. Your goal is to minimize the costs of shipping goods from production plants to warehouses, thereby meeting the demand from each metropolitan area while not exceeding the supply available from each plant. To complete this project it is recommended that you use the Solver function in Excel to assist with the analysis.
2. Specifically you want to focus on:
Minimizing the total shipping costs.
Total shipped must be less than or equal to supply at a plant.
Total shipped to warehouses must be greater than or equal to the warehouse demand.
Number to ship must be greater than or equal to 0.
Data File: AYK17_Data.xlsx