DM Office Products (DMOP) is a wholesale supplier of office products with one facility in Pennsylvania. It has decided to build a new distribution warehouse in the state of New York to help serve the growing demand in that market. It has four major customers located in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and New York City. Though New York City is the largest market, it also has the greatest competition, and DMOP is not a major player there. When DMOP ships an order to a customer, it uses its own small fleet of two trucks to deliver, so the cost of delivery is essentially the same for a full or partially full truck. The expected number of annual shipments to each city and their coordinates on an x, y grid is shown in the following table.   CITY x-COORDINATES y-COORDINATES NUMBER OF SHIPMENTS Buffalo 340 865 85 Syracuse 1,435 915 89 Albany 2,315 645 129 New York City 2,290 45 69

One MCN is a manufacturing company which produce ceramics that has been operating for over 15 years with its head office in Jakarta. One MCN has expanded their business widely throughout Indonesia, where through the vision and mission built to achieve the company's goals, One MCN has 4 factories which has spread across Java with an emphasis on production activities according to the demand of the market. One MCN has also established relationships with more than 20 suppliers and 300 retailers that are connected by 1 distributor, namely PT. Mega Citra. After 15 years, technology era has encouraged all top management to discuss so that they can make decisions about the renewal of planning strategies that can be implemented based on the digital use, which is believed that improves the performance of the company in a sustainable way. One MCN plans to build an In-house system so that it can be controlled internally through the IT department and top management to prevent data leakage, increase…

(iii) Find the initial basic feasible solution for the following transportation problem using VAM. Explain each step. Destination D1 D2 D3 D4 Supply 01 11 13 17 14 250 Origin 02 16 18 14 10 300 O3 Demand 200 225 275| 250 21 24 13 10 400

Victor Pimentel, purchasing manager of Office Supply Center of Mexico, is searching for a new supplier for its paper. The mostimportant supplier criteria for Victor include paper quality, delivery reliability, customer service, and financial condition, and hebelieves that paper quality is twice as important as each of the other three criteria. Victor has narrowed the choice to two suppliers,and his staff has rated each supplier on each criterion (using a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being highest), as shown in the followingtable: PAPER QUALITY DELIVERY RELIABILITY CUSTOMER SERVICE FINANCIAL CONDITIONMonterrey Paper 85 70 65 80Papel Grande 80 90 95 75Use the factor-weighting approach to determine the best supplier choice.