40 A FP Pri Delete 6 & 7 8 MGMT 3320 - Operations Management Fall 2019 Name: 2. (20 Points) A well-known sports apparel manufacturer needs to build a new distribution center. The apparel items arrive in the US at one of three ports. All apparel shipments will be sent to the new distribution center where they are repackaged. The apparel is then shipped to one of five warehouses from the distribution center. The coordinates of the three ports, the five warehouses and the number of anticipated annual shipments (truckloads) required are as follows: Location Port X Shipments New Orleans 2680 2917 Jacksonville 1008 647 39 New York 858 2060 53 Warehouse #1 1409 1666 40 Warehouse W2 1893 2412 58 Warehouse #3 936 2334 57 Warehouse #4 1850 601 81 Warehouse #5 2889 1463 57 Where should the apparel manufacturer locate the new distribution center so that it is most centrally located among ALL 8 locations and also accounts for the required annual shipments? What is the recommended location in (x, y) coordinates? Answer: (x- -You may round to the nearest whole number 3. (20 Points) Rather than choosing a site that is centrally located among the eight locations above, the apparel company has decided that one of the following four sites is best-suited to as the new site for the distribution center. The coordinates for the four alternative sites are: Location Site X A 1096 1035 B 1676 2525 2766 1464 D 1149 2510 Answers: Given these site locations, the distribution center should be located at Site The total load-distance factor (rounded to the nearest whole number) for each site is: Site C - Site D- Site A Site B