Question: Can you please answer the following in an EXCEL SPREADSHEET and show the formulas ( this is all that's given) (Supply Chain Decisions) The Albers
Can you please answer the following in an EXCEL SPREADSHEET and show the formulas (this is all that's given)
| (Supply Chain Decisions) The Albers Milling Company buys corn and wheat and then grinds and blends them into two final products Fast-Gro and Quik-Gro. | ||||||||||||
| Fast-Gro is required to have at least 2.5% protein while Quik-Gro must have at least 3.2 % protein. Corn contains 1.9% protein while wheat contains 3.8% protein. | ||||||||||||
| The firm can do the buying and blending at either the Albers(A) plant or the Bartelso(B) plant. | ||||||||||||
| The blended products must then be shipped to the firms two warehouse outlets, one at Carlyle(C) and the other at Damiansville(D). Current costs per bushel at the two plants are: | ||||||||||||
| A | B | |||||||||||
| Corn | 10 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Wheat | 12 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Transportation costs per bushel between the plants and warehouses are: | ||||||||||||
| Fast-Gro | ||||||||||||
| To | ||||||||||||
| C | D | |||||||||||
| From | A | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| B | 3 | 0.75 | ||||||||||
| Quik-Gro | ||||||||||||
| To | ||||||||||||
| C | D | |||||||||||
| From | A | 3 | 3.5 | |||||||||
| B | 4 | 1.9 | ||||||||||
| The firm must satisfy the following demands in bushels at the warehouse outlets: | ||||||||||||
| Product | ||||||||||||
| Warehouse | Fast-Gro | Quik-Gro | ||||||||||
| C | 1,000 | 3,000 | ||||||||||
| D | 4,000 | 6,000 | ||||||||||
| Formulate an LP useful in determining the purchasing, blending, and shipping decisions. | ||||||||||||
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