Case 4-1 Qmont Mining Alice Winter, working on a summer internship at Qmont student in logistics, to work as a summer intern to assist Mining, was trying to determine how the supply systems him. Harry had said to Alice: "A good project for you to for remote locations could be improved. work on is the way we handle supply for remote locations. I suspect that we could do substantially better, but I really QMONT MINING don't have any hard data." Qmont Mining, a major metals producer with headquarters REMOTE LOCATIONS in Vancouver, British Columbia, had extensive holdings all over the Canadian North. Supply management had been Alice found out that Qmont had 17 remote locations, ranging completely decentralized until very recently. A consulting from three small mines that had a buyer/storekeeper on site to study had recommended a move to more centralized sup- two mine start-ups. nine exploration sites, and three develop- ply management, including purchasing and logistics. The ment projects with a distance of 5.000 kilometers (km) be- purchasing and stores manager at Qmont's largest mine tween the farthest ones and 300 km between the closest ones. in British Columbia, Harry Davidson, had been asked to Omont made a distinction between exploration sites where pursue this idea and to make recommendations on poten- tial improvements.Harry had hired Alice Winter, a college "1 km = 0.60 miles