The MidLands Trucking Company based in Louisvillehas eight trucks located throughout the Mideast that havedelivered their loads and are available for shipments. Through their Internet logistics site MidLands has re-ceived shipping requests from 12 customers. The follow-ing table shows the mileage for a truck to travel to a customer location, pick up the load, and deliver it. Determine the optimal assignment of trucks to customersthat will minimize the total mileage. Customers Truck A B C D E F G H I J K L1 500 730 620 410 550 600 390 480 670 710 440 5902 900 570 820 770 910 660 650 780 840 950 590 6703 630 660 750 540 680 750 810 560 710 1200 490 6504 870 1200 810 670 710 820 1200 630 700 900 540 6205 950 910 740 810 630 590 930 650 840 930 460 5606 1100 860 800 590 570 550 780 610 1300 840 550 7907 610 710 910 550 810 730 910 720 850 760 580 6308 560 690 660 640 720 670 830 690 880 1000 710 680

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…

Discuss the use of event-driven architectures in enhancing fleet management and logistics in the transportation industry.