Question: Please include the conceptual model and excel model using Solver A number of technical issues had to be solved to implement the Mars procurement auction.
Please include the conceptual model and excel model using Solver
A number of technical issues had to be solved to implement the Mars procurement auction. The most difficult of these was the problem of finding the cost-minimizing set of bids that met Mars business requirements and determined the winning suppliers. Exhibit 1 contains an illustrative example of the first round of an auction. How could Mars determine the winning bids? Further, when the auction went live, Mars would have just a few minutes to determine the winning bids for larger problems (up to 500 items and 5,000 bids). How could the low-cost set of bids that satisfied Mars business criteria be found in one or two minutes?
Items in the auction (all items can be oversupplied):
Mars display boxes:
1,000 large
2,500 medium
4,000 small
M&M display boxes:
800 large
1,500 medium
2,500 small
Snickers display boxes:
400 large
750 medium
1,200 small
3 Musketeers display boxes:
100 large
100 medium
50 small
First Round Bids received:
1:05 p.m. Supplier 1 bids $2,050 to supply all Mars display boxes.
1:06 p.m. Supplier 2 bids $350 to supply Snickers small display boxes.
1:10 p.m. Supplier 3 bids $1,199 to supply all large display boxes.
1:11 p.m. Supplier 1 bids $220 to supply Snickers large, and all 3 Musketeers display boxes.
1:14 p.m. Supplier 4 bids $4,639 to supply everything.
1:20 p.m. Supplier 2 bids $199 to supply 3 Musketeers medium and small display boxes.
1:26 p.m. Supplier 5 bids $1,199 to supply all M&M, and 3 Musketeers medium and small display boxes.
1:35 p.m. Supplier 6 bids $1,350 to supply Mars, M&M and 3 Musketeers small display boxes.
1:40 p.m. Supplier 3 bids $350 to supply Snickers medium display boxes.
1:41 p.m. Supplier 7 bids $2,200 to supply Mars and M&M large and medium display boxes.
1:52 p.m. Supplier 2 bids $999 to supply M&M medium and small display boxes.
1:59 p.m. Supplier 5 bids $1,700 to supply all small display boxes.
2:00 p.m. Auction first round closes.
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