Operations Management

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A small manufacturing facility is being planned that will feed parts to three heavy manufacturing facilities. The locations of the current plants with their coordinates and volume requirements are given in the following table: Use the centroid method to determine a location for this new facility. Note: Round your answers to 1 decimal place. Rent'R Cars is a multisite car rental company in the city. It is trying out a new "return the car to the Iocation 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. Find the solution that minimizes moving costs using Microsoft Excel. Note: Leave no cells blank, whenever zero (0) is required