chapter 6

Solve the following Problems. Be sure to use Breel and Word for your work. All work needs to be shown. Problem 1) The Makonsel Company is a fully integrated company that both produces goods and sells them at its retail outlets. After production, the goods are stored in the company's two warebouse until needed by retail outlets. Trucks are used to transport the goods from the two plants to the warehouses, and then from the warehouses to the three retail outlets. Using units of full truckloeds, the first table below shows each plant's monthly output, if's shipping cost per truckload sent to each warehouse, and the maximum amount it can ship per month to each warehouse. For each retail outlet (RO), the second table below shows its monthly demand, its shipping costs per truckload from each wrehouse, and the risoximum that can be shipped per month for each warchouse. Management now wants to determine a distribution plan (number of trucklonds shipped per month from each plant to each warehouse and from each warehouse to each retail outlet) that will minimize the total shipping cost. a) Draw a network that depicts the company's distribution network. Identify the supply nodes, transshipment nodes, and demand nodes in this network. b) Formulate a network model for this problem as a minimum-cost flow problem by inserting all the necessary data into the network drawn in part a. (Use the format depicted in figure 6.3 to display this data) c) Formulate and solve a spreadshcet model for this problem. Solve the following Problems. Be sure to use Breel and Word for your work. All work needs to be shown. Problem 1) The Makonsel Company is a fully integrated company that both produces goods and sells them at its retail outlets. After production, the goods are stored in the company's two warebouse until needed by retail outlets. Trucks are used to transport the goods from the two plants to the warehouses, and then from the warehouses to the three retail outlets. Using units of full truckloeds, the first table below shows each plant's monthly output, if's shipping cost per truckload sent to each warehouse, and the maximum amount it can ship per month to each warehouse. For each retail outlet (RO), the second table below shows its monthly demand, its shipping costs per truckload from each wrehouse, and the risoximum that can be shipped per month for each warchouse. Management now wants to determine a distribution plan (number of trucklonds shipped per month from each plant to each warehouse and from each warehouse to each retail outlet) that will minimize the total shipping cost. a) Draw a network that depicts the company's distribution network. Identify the supply nodes, transshipment nodes, and demand nodes in this network. b) Formulate a network model for this problem as a minimum-cost flow problem by inserting all the necessary data into the network drawn in part a. (Use the format depicted in figure 6.3 to display this data) c) Formulate and solve a spreadshcet model for this