Question: Problem 1. You and several friends have decided to join a small consulting firm located in Addison, TX. The firm is led by a retired
Problem 1. You and several friends have decided to join a small consulting firm located in Addison, TX. The firm is led by a retired executive with experience in logistics and industrial real estate. CEO any received Project for local DFW distributed for a company headinent center in Chi Based on previous project for locating an e-fulfillment center in Chicago your company received a referral for a company headquartered in the DFW area. The CEO of the DFW distributor has a close friend who is the vice-president of distribution for a mid-size national distributor. The vice-president currently is planning to enter the Arizona, New Mexico. Oklahoma market and support hardware distributors located throughout these states. The company supports a variety of "big box" hardware distribution centers as well as providing direct store delivery (DSD) to several large retail outlets similar to Menards in the Midwest and plains states. These customer locations for this project are located throughout the areas in the map below. Your task is to apply the appropriate heuristic to obtain a quick result for the distributor client. The client wants the X and Y coordinates and the total cost associated with locating at these coordinates. Colorado Wh510 go Cayo . SAMA W .. A rtele con Putn i ng Cors WAN OLO w Malang S . umes G RANS 3 Mateo wath mi, . Ter We G P rece TC MTS WS MEXICO State capitals 2012 Encyclopaedia Inc. 10 15 20 Homework #1 Facility Location, Spring 2020 Page 14 Your boss was able to obtain the following data from the client. 5.5 31.5 15 36 Customer Phoenix Oklahoma City Albuquerque Houston Denton El Paso Tulsa Flagstaff Tucson San Antonio 16.5 21 20 9 16.5 13 23 32 38,000 28,000 25,000 40,000 50,000 15,000 10,000 6,000 34,000 0,000 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ R 2.00 1.80 2.10 1.90 1.75 1.75 1.60 1.90 2.00 1.80 15 33.5 76,000.00 50,400.00 52,500.00 76,000.00 87,500.00 26,250.00 16,000.00 11,400.00 68,000.00 54,000.00 20 13.5 30 9 3 Note: you must submit a hand-written solution to receive full credit. Please show all work to receive credit. You will need to scan your handwritten work and submit as a pdf. Homework #1 Facility Location, Spring 2020 Page 5 Problem 1. You and several friends have decided to join a small consulting firm located in Addison, TX. The firm is led by a retired executive with experience in logistics and industrial real estate. CEO any received Project for local DFW distributed for a company headinent center in Chi Based on previous project for locating an e-fulfillment center in Chicago your company received a referral for a company headquartered in the DFW area. The CEO of the DFW distributor has a close friend who is the vice-president of distribution for a mid-size national distributor. The vice-president currently is planning to enter the Arizona, New Mexico. Oklahoma market and support hardware distributors located throughout these states. The company supports a variety of "big box" hardware distribution centers as well as providing direct store delivery (DSD) to several large retail outlets similar to Menards in the Midwest and plains states. These customer locations for this project are located throughout the areas in the map below. Your task is to apply the appropriate heuristic to obtain a quick result for the distributor client. The client wants the X and Y coordinates and the total cost associated with locating at these coordinates. Colorado Wh510 go Cayo . SAMA W .. A rtele con Putn i ng Cors WAN OLO w Malang S . umes G RANS 3 Mateo wath mi, . Ter We G P rece TC MTS WS MEXICO State capitals 2012 Encyclopaedia Inc. 10 15 20 Homework #1 Facility Location, Spring 2020 Page 14 Your boss was able to obtain the following data from the client. 5.5 31.5 15 36 Customer Phoenix Oklahoma City Albuquerque Houston Denton El Paso Tulsa Flagstaff Tucson San Antonio 16.5 21 20 9 16.5 13 23 32 38,000 28,000 25,000 40,000 50,000 15,000 10,000 6,000 34,000 0,000 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ R 2.00 1.80 2.10 1.90 1.75 1.75 1.60 1.90 2.00 1.80 15 33.5 76,000.00 50,400.00 52,500.00 76,000.00 87,500.00 26,250.00 16,000.00 11,400.00 68,000.00 54,000.00 20 13.5 30 9 3 Note: you must submit a hand-written solution to receive full credit. Please show all work to receive credit. You will need to scan your handwritten work and submit as a pdf. Homework #1 Facility Location, Spring 2020 Page 5