Q1/Test the examples of the solution to the following transport issue using the rate distribution method (never U1=0 For two tables only) using a less expensive way to find the primary basic solution?

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Your options for shipping $96,970 of machine parts from Baltimore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are (1) use a ship that will take 32 days at a cost of $3,370, or (2) truck the parts to Los Angeles and then ship at a total cost of $5,180. The second option will take only 20 days. You are paid via a letter of credit the day the parts arrive. Your holding cost is estimated at 30% of the value per year. If you have a third option and it costs only $4,440 and also takes 20 days, what is your most economical plan? The daily holding cost of Alternative 1 is $ 79.70 . (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.) The daily cost of faster shipping with Alternative 2 is $ 150.83. (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.) The daily cost of faster shipping with Alternative 3 is $ (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places.)

SRS Limited is a manufacturing company in Asia (China and India) specializing in bicycles that they sell to the USA, Canada, and Africa. Recently they acquired JAP Bicycle in Jamaica and supplying them with bikes and parts. They want to get in the automatic wheelchair for the physical challenge. SRS Limited contracted you as a transportation consultant to see their shipment from Asia to Canada, the East and West coast of the USA, Jamaica, and Africa.   a. Differentiate the difference between intra-modal and inter-modal and why you will have recommended one over the other.

Valles Galactic Industries (VGI) owns a small company (VGI-Durango Sur) that manufactures various electronic products for original equipment manufacturers.   Customer companies provide engineering designs, materials lists, and some unique materials.  VGI-DS provides labor and space for the manufacturing and assembly operations and stocking a variety of inventory items for production, such as wire, cables, some electronic components, etc.  Thus, VGI-DS orders a variety of components and raw materials by contract. The labor pool is primarily composed of about 100 retirees picking up extra cash by working four to six-hour shifts.  Thus, the assembly operations must be simple and easy to teach.  Skilled employees must do several raw material conversions for packaging—there are currently three such employees. VGI-DS receives forecasts from VGI headquarters for planned production for two years on a rolling quarterly basis.  Staff at VGI-DS develop schedules and inventory plans based on this…

Inventory Problem at Three Spoons Market Randy is the owner of Three Spoons Market. Three Spoons Market is an upscale tapas restaurant in a town of about 200,000 people. According to both Yelp and Trip Advisory, it is the highest restaurant in town. Randy had been having trouble with inventory management (he runs out some items while others go bad) and has brought you in as a consultant to help, due your background in inventory management. The menu at the restaurant changes monthly, and there are daily specials. Randy follows what other restaurant Owners are doing to improve their bottom line-he reads trade publication and online blogs. He also tries to keep up with trends in other industries that may help him manage better. He recently read about the success small-jobs have had with many managing inventory as A,B or C. As Randy thinks about his business, it is really a job shop, since food is prepared after the consumer orders from the menu. The food is prepared to customer tastes and…

Which one of the following happens at a supply point? Goods are created and consumed at this point. Goods are created at this node. Goods are passing through this point. Goods are consumed at this point.

Evaluate an alternative that involves consolidating all 20-foot container volumes and using only a single consolidation center in Shanghai/Ningbo. Assume that all the existing 20-foot container volumes and the existing consolidation center volumes are sent to this single consolidation center by suppliers. This new consolidation center volume would be packed into 40-foot containers, filled to 96 percent, and shipped to the United States. The existing 40-foot volume would still be shipped direc t from the suppliers at 85 percent capacity utilization.

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In this problem, your company is a distributor of products. You serve as an inventory manager for the regional distribution center (DC) here in the Atlanta area. In this role, you schedule the purchase and shipment of products from various suppliers inbound to the Atlanta DC. Once you receive the products at the DC, they are stored in inventory until they are picked, packed, and shipped outbound to your company's downstream customers in response to orders. For each of your products, you currently use a single, dedicated supplier. Each of your suppliers ships their products to you from their facility using trucking services, and they provide you with choices of different LTL or truckload trucking carriers depending on your shipment size. Consider managing inventory now for product 101 produced by Supplier A. Currently, you face demand for product 101 of about 200 units per week. Each unit of product 101 has a purchase cost p of $500 and you decide to value your inventory at the slightly…