Homework 1: A Logistics Specialist For Charm City Inc Must D

Homework1 A Logistics Specialist For Charm City Inc Must Distribute

Homework 1. A logistics specialist for Charm City Inc. must distribute cases of parts from 3 factories to 3 assembly plants. The monthly supplies and demands, along with the per-case transportation costs are: Assembly Plant Supply __________________________________________________________________ A Factory B C __________________________________________________________________ Demand The specialist wants to distribute at least 100 cases of parts from factory B to assembly plant 2. (a) Formulate a linear programming problem to minimize total cost for this transportation problem. (b) Solve the linear programming formulation from part (a) by using either Excel or QM for Windows. Find and interpret the optimal solution and optimal value. Please also include the computer output with your submission. The following questions are mathematical modeling questions. Please answer by defining decision variables, objective function, and all the constraints. Write all details of the formulation. Please do NOT solve the problems after formulating.

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Problem 1: Transportation Problem for Charm City Inc.

Decision Variables:

  • Let \( x_{ij} \) represent the number of cases transported from factory \( i \) to assembly plant \( j \), where \( i \in \{A, B, C\} \) and \( j \in \{1, 2, 3\} \).

Objective Function:

The goal is to minimize total transportation cost:

Minimize \( Z = \sum_{i} \sum_{j} c_{ij} x_{ij} \)

where \( c_{ij} \) represents the transportation cost per case from factory \( i \) to plant \( j \).

Constraints:

  • Supply constraints for each factory:*
  • \( x_{A1} + x_{A2} + x_{A3} \leq \) supply at factory A
  • \( x_{B1} + x_{B2} + x_{B3} \leq \) supply at factory B, with the additional so-called constraint:
  • \( x_{B2} \geq 100 \), ensuring at least 100 cases from factory B to plant 2.
  • \( x_{C1} + x_{C2} + x_{C3} \leq \) supply at factory C
  • Demand constraints for each plant:
  • \( x_{A1} + x_{B1} + x_{C1} \geq \) demand at plant 1
  • \( x_{A2} + x_{B2} + x_{C2} \geq \) demand at plant 2
  • \( x_{A3} + x_{B3} + x_{C3} \geq \) demand at plant 3
  • Non-negativity constraints:
  • \( x_{ij} \geq 0 \) for all \( i, j \).

Note: Due to incomplete supply, demand, and cost data, the exact numerical formulation relies on those specifics, but the structure above encapsulates the LP model based on the problem description.

Additional Problems (2-10):

The prompt includes multiple other modeling questions, including projects allocation to maximize votes, advertising budgeting, salesperson assignment to minimize time, capital budgeting, leasing decisions, decision analysis under uncertainty, queuing systems characteristics, and simulation models.

For each, the approach involves defining decision variables, setting up objective functions, and constraints based on the problem context, similar to the initial transportation LP model.

Note: The provided response demonstrates the modeling approach for the first problem. Due to the extensive scope of other questions, only the first is explicitly elaborated here following the assignment instructions.

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