Santa Cruz Bottling is a manufacturer of organic soft drinks on the coast of central California. Its products are enjoying a growing reputation and increased demand throughout the American Southwest. Because of the high cost of transporting soft drinks, they are considering a new plant to serve the states of New Mexico and Arizona. A key concern in their search for a new location is the resultant transportation costs to serve their key markets. Following is a list of cities where their main wholesale customers are located, along with estimated annual demand in cases of product for each. CITY Phoenix X-COORDINATES y-COORDINATES 260 260 Tucson 360 135 Albuquerque 810 Santa Fe 860 460 530 NUMBER OF CASES 26,000 22,000 30,000 18,000 a. Use the centroid method to recommend a location for the new bottling plant. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.) Cx Cy

TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATION State any extra information about transportation technique applications in real life.

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Explain the relationship between the number of facilities and transportation cost and draw the graph

What do the authors mean when they talk about the idea that logistics is boundary spanning?

Walker Accounting Software is marketed to small accounting firms throughout the U.S. and Canada. Owner George Wa lker has decided to outsource the company's help deskand is considering three providers: Manila Call Center (Philippines), Delhi Services (India), and Moscow Bell (Russia).The following table summarizes the data Walker has assembled. Which outsourcing firm has the best rating? (Higher weights imply higher importance and higher ratings imply more desirable providers.

Suppliers A, B, and C supply components to three plants -- F, G, and H via two transshipment facilities -- T1 and T2. It costs $4 to ship from T1 regardless of final destination and $3 to ship to T2 regardless of supplier. Shipping to T1 from A, B, and C costs $3, $4, and $5, respectively, and shipping from T2 to F, G, and H costs $10, $9, and $8, respectively. Suppliers A, B, and C can provide 200, 300 and 500 units respectively and plants F, G, and H need 350, 450, and 200 units respectively. The Logistics Manager has come to you for help. Answer the following question: Which of these is not an element of the objective function? Group of answer choices 4D-T1 600T1 9T2-G 3C-T2 Plz do fast asap

Company A has hired you to evaluate its shipping costs. The following table shows present demand, capacity and freight costs between each factory and each warehouse. Find the shipping pattern with the lowest cost. Use the northwest-corner method. What is its total cost? Use the intuitive lowest-cost approach. What is its total cost? Based on your findings in question above, comments the effective approach in conducting the transportation method. Briefly explain the different, limitation, advantages, disadvantages and feasibility of each approach

Operations management Explain the steps in the intuitive lowest cost method of the transportation model in logistics ?