Posted: January 13th, 2016

Determine the optimal shipments between the European ports and the warehouses and the distribution centers to minimize total transportation costs.

Chapter 6

1. Consider the following transportation problem:

From

To (Cost)

Supply

1 2 3 A 6 5 5 150 B 11 8 9 85 C 4 10 7 125 Demand  70 100 80

Formulate this problem as a linear programming model and solve it by the using the computer.

2. Consider the following transportation problem:

From

To (Cost)

Supply

1 2 3 A 8 14 8 120 B 6 17 7 80 C 9 24 10 150 Demand  110 140 100

Solve it by using the computer.

3. World foods, Inc. imports food products such as meats, cheeses, and pastries to the United States from warehouses at ports in Hamburg, Marseilles and Liverpool. Ships from these ports deliver the products to Norfolk, New York and Savannah, where they are stored in company warehouses before being shipped to distribution centers in Dallas, St. Louis and Chicago. The products are then distributed to specialty foods stores and sold through catalogs. The shipping costs ($/1,000 lb.) from the European ports to the U.S. cities and the available supplies (1000 lb.) at the European ports are provided in the following table:

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From

To (Cost) Supply 4. Norfolk 5. New York 6. Savannah 1. Hamburg  320 280 555 75 2. Marseilles 410 470 365 85 3. Liverpool 550 355 525 40

The transportation costs ($/1000 lb.) from each U.S. city of the three distribution centers and the demands (1000 lb.) at the distribution centers are as follows:

Warehouse

Distribution Center

7. Dallas 8. St. Louis 9. Chicago 4. Norfolk  80 78 85 5. New York 100 120 95 6. Savannah  65 75 90 Demand  85 70 65

Determine the optimal shipments between the European ports and the warehouses and the distribution centers to minimize total transportation costs.

4. The Omega Pharmaceutical firm has five salespersons, whom the firm wants to assign to five sales regions. Given their various previous contacts, the sales persons are able to cover the regions in different amounts of time. The amount of time (days) required by each salesperson to cover each city is shown in the following table:

Salesperson

Region (days) A B C D E 1 20 10 12 10 22 2 14 10 18 11 15 3 12 13 19 11 14 4 16 12 14 22 16 5 12 15 19 26 23

Which salesperson should be assigned to each region to minimize total time? Identify the optimal assignments and compute total minimum time