The Townside Food Services Company delivers fresh sandwiches each morning to vending machines throughout the city. Workers
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Formulate and solve a linear programming model for this problem.
a. If Townside Food Service could hire another worker and increase its available assembly time by 480 minutes, or increase its vending machine capacity by 100 sandwiches, which should it do? Why? How much additional profit would your decision result in?
b. What would be the effect on the optimal solution if the requirement that at least 200 sandwiches of each kind be stocked was eliminated? Compare the profit between the optimal solution and this solution, and indicate which solution you would recommend.
c. What would be the effect on the optimal solution if the profit for a ham and cheese sandwich was increased to $0.40? $0.45?
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Operations Management Creating Value Along the Supply Chain
ISBN: 978-0470525906
7th Edition
Authors: Roberta S. Russell, Bernard W. Taylor
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