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- Qn1. Find the optimal solution to the transportation problem using MODI method. Warehouses Supply WI W2 W3 W4 P1 19 30 50 12 Plants 5. 2. P2 70 30 40 60 P3 40 10 60 20 3. 15 Demand 4)b) Table 2 shows the transportation costs, demands and supplies of a transportation problem. Table 2: Transportation problem To From A B C Supply 1 7 4 150 8 11 50 3 250 10 11 12 Demand 100 200 150 i) Find the initial solution using the Minimum Cost method and identify the special case if any. ii) Suppose the initial solution to the above problem takes the basic variables x11 = 100, x12 = 50, X23 = 50, x32 = 150 and x33 = 100. Find the optimal solution using Modified Distribution method. iii) Present the optimal solution obtained in ii) graphically.Here is the initial tableau (by the NorthWest method) of a Min transportation problem. 1 2 3 Demand 19 Dual(v) 1 15 9 S1: 11 10 14 0 S2: 0 S3: B 0 B 3 N 15 Demanders 2 8 0 9 12 188 15 9 21 5 N 0 B 0 B 13 10 8 8 20 3 0 20 -4 N -6 N 0 B 17 7 5 4 0 0 1 -14 N -8 N 0 B Supply Dual(u) 0 (188 188 188 188 Using the Loop method fill in the values of the next tableau Each 2x2 matrix is the relevant square in the tableau. 9 (For grading convenience, in bottom right corner of each box use 1 for "B" and 0 for "N") 22 188 188 188 30 -4 2
- Jk.335. Propiem 14-8 Rent'R Cars is a multisite car rental company in the city. It is trying out a new "return the car to the location most convenient for you" policy to improve customer service. But this means that the company has to constantly move cars around the city to maintain required levels of vehicle availability. The supply and demand for economy cars, and the total cost of moving these vehicles between sites, are shown below. From To A B C Demand D $9 9 5 50 From/To $8 Candidate solution A B C Total shipped Cost A - B C Total costs 8 3 60 $6 8 3 25 $5 D 0 10 a. Find the solution that minimizes moving costs using Microsoft Excel. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) Supply 50 40 75 30 165 165 E F G Supply $Q3) The Cure medical distribution center distributes urgent medical equipment for five local hospitals in Washington DC metropolitan area. Cure Medical distribution would like to invest in a new warehouse in Washington DC to minimize the total distance from five major hospitals. The coordinate of the five hospitals is given below: ( (2) 3 Great Fall (C) (47) 122 (121) Fairfax 10 We W Bu (645) -D (-20, 30)- -E (-40, -30) Colesville Fairland Calpen A (10,60) -B (10,-10) Ⓡ South Lourel stuxent search Refuge (MA A (14) tille (214) pha Bowit (00 X -C (45, -20) 201 C a) Use Solver to determine where the new warehouse should be in to minimize the total distance from 5 hospitals. What are the coordinates of the new warehouse? b) Solve your problem again to minimize the maximum distance between hospitals and the new warehouse. What are the coordinates of the new warehouse?Q: When we solve the given transportation problem according to the lowest cost method, which warehouse and/or warehouses are suitable for shipment from f3 (F: Factory M: Customer)A) no needb) M1, M2, M3c) M1 and M2d) M3 and M1E) M3
- REQUIRED: (a) Draw a network that depicts the company's supply network. Identify the supply nodes, transshipment nodes, and demand nodes in this network. (b) Formulate an optimization model to solve this problem. (Set-up only the objective function and the Constrains do not solve) 1 Question The Audiofile Company produces boomboxes. However, management has decided to subcontract out the production of the speakers needed for the boomboxes. Three vendors are available to supply the speakers. Their price for each shipment of 1,000 speakers is shown below Vendor 1 2 3 In addition, each vendor would charge a shipping cost. Each shipment would go to one of the company's two warehouses. Each vendor has its own formula for calculating this shipping cost based on the mileage to the warehouse. These formulas and the mileage data are shown below Vendor 1 2 3 Vendor 2 3 Warehouse 1 Price $22,500 $22,700 $22,300 Charge per shipment $300+0.40/m $200+050/mle $500+0.20/mile 1600 miles 500 miles 2,000…20. Suppose that one wishes to schedule vehicles from a central depot to five customer locations. The cost of making trips between each pair of locations is given in the following matrix. (Assume that the depot is location 0.) Cost Matrix (c) то 1 2 3 4 5 75 33 10 30 15 42 F 1 35 20 R 2 18 58 3 40 20 M 4 25 Assume that these costs correspond to distances between locations and that each vehicle is constrained to travel no more than 50 miles on each route. Find the routing suggested by the savings method. 201. Consider the following transportation tableau with three origins and three destinations. To From Windhoek Gobabis Walvis Bay Supply Rundu 4 10 6 100 Oshakati 8 16 6 300 Katima Mulilo 14 18 10 300 Demand 200 300 200 Required Marks Sub total Total Use the Vogel Approximation method (VAM) to find an initial feasible solution? 20 20 To
- Use the northwest corner method, the minimum-cost method, and Vogel's method to find basic feasible solutions to the transportation problem in Table 73. TABLE 73 20 11 3 6. 5 5 9. 10 10 18 7 1 15 3 3 12 12 a) Find the optimal solution b) Estimate the range of c13 under which the current optimal solution to problem remains optimal. c) Resolve the review problem under the condition that both the capacity of supplier 2 and the demand for customer 2 increase by 2 units. 4-Suppliers A, B, and C supply components to three plants -- F, G, and H via two transshipment facilities -- T1 and T2. It costs $4 to ship from T1 regardless of final destination and $3 to ship to T2 regardless of supplier. Shipping to T1 from A, B, and C costs $3, $4, and $5, respectively, and shipping from T2 to F, G, and H costs $10, $9, and $8, respectively. Suppliers A, B, and C can provide 200, 300 and 500 units respectively and plants F, G, and H need 350, 450, and 200 units respectively. The Logistics Manager has come to you for help. Answer the following question: Which of these is not an element of the objective function? Group of answer choices 4D-T1 600T1 9T2-G 3C-T2 Plz do fast asapS7.12. The Federal Parcel Service wants to build a new distribution cen- ter in Charlotte, North Carolina. The center needs to be in the vicinity of uncongested Interstate-77 and Interstate-85 interchanges and the Char- lotte-Douglas International Airport. The coordinates of these three sites and the number of weekly packages that flow to each are as follows: 1-77 1-85 Airport X= 14 X= 20 X= 30 y = 30 y = 8 ソ=14 w = 17,000 w = 12,000 W = 9000 Determine the best site location using the center-of-gravity technique.