LOGISTICA Y CADENA DE SUMINISTRO OT 2018

PROBLEM 1: GRAND PRIX (30 Puntos)

The Grand Prix Automobile Company manufactures automobiles in three plants

and then ships them to four regions of the country. The plants can supply the
amounts listed in the right column of the table below. The customer demand by
region are listed in the bottom row of this table, and the unit costs of shipping an
automobile from each plant to each region are listed in the middle of the table.
Grand Prix wants to find the lowest cost shipping plan for meeting demands
of the four regions without exceeding the capacities of the plants.

To
Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Capacity
From Plant 1 $131 $218 $266 $120 450
Plant 2 $250 $116 $263 $278 600
Plant 3 $178 $132 $122 $180 500
Demand 450 200 300 300

[Hint: You need to build a transportation model in your spreadsheet, following the
steps of the lessons. To check your spreadsheet, try setting each decision variable
(the flow on each of the 12 arcs) = 1. Your total cost should be 2,254. If this is not
the case, check your model!]

1.- How many units need to be shipped on each of the 12 arcs (24 puntos)

2.- Want is the minimum shipping cost (3 puntos)

3.- Draw the network diagram of the optimal solution (3 puntos)

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PROBLEM 2: CIENMEX CEMENT (40 puntos)

Cement manufacturer and distributor CIENMEX operates five (5) factories in

Colombia. They distribute their products through five (5) regional distribution
centers (DCs) each of which supports a specific market.

To reduce the number of direct shipments between factories and regional DCs, as
well as improve the load factor of shipments, Cienmex has utilized a crossdocking
(XD) facility for some time. Owing to the success of their existing crossdocking
facility (XD1), Cienmex has now decided to open an additional facility (XD2).

The packaged cement is transported through the network in pallets via truck. The
transportation costs for a pallet between the five factories and the two
crossdocking facilities are given in the table below.

Cross Dock 1 Cross Dock 2

Plant 1 18 42
Plant 2 54 79
Plant 3 62 11
Plant 4 80 64
Plant 5 10 90

The transportation costs for a pallet between the crossdocking facilities and the
regional DCs are given in the table below

DC1 DC 2 DC3 DC4 DC5

Crossdock 1 26 11 12 35 20
Crossdock 2 33 60 74 11 32

The five factories have the following production capacities per week (number of
pallets):

Factory 1: 1200
Factory 2: 2300
Factory 3: 4100
Factory 4: 2150
Factory 5: 1220

The five regional DCs face the following demand per week (number of pallets):

DC 1: 1150
DC 2: 2100
DC 3: 3110
DC 4: 1200
DC 5: 2180
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The crossdocking facilities have much spare capacity.

[Hint: You need to build a transshipment model in your spreadsheet. To check

your spreadsheet, try setting each decision variable (the flow on each of the 20
arcs) = 1. Your total cost should be $824 with 5 units going through each cross-
dock. If this is not the case, check your model!]

QUESTIONS

2.1 Suppose Cienmex wishes to plan the flow of product from Factories to Cross-
docks to Distribution Centers in order to minimize total costs. How much should be
shipped through the new facility, crossdocking facility TWO and from what factories
Indicate Plant XYZ / Quantity

How Much? ___________ (5 puntos)

From which factories and what quantities? ______________________ (10 puntos)

2.2 Which DC's will be supported by the new crossdocking facility, XD2 (indicate
RDC ## / Quantity

________________________________________________________ (15 puntos)

2.3 What is the minimum cost? _______________________________ (5 puntos)

2.4 What percent of the total capacity (this is all plants) is being used to satisfy
demand? __________ % (5 puntos)
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PROBLEM 3: SUNCO OIL (30 puntos)

Sunco Oil produces oil at two wells. Well 1 can produce up to 150,000 barrels per
day and well 2 can produce up to 200,000 barrels per day. It is possible to ship oil
directly from the wells to Sunco´s customers in Los Angeles and New York.
Alternatively, Sunco could transport oil to the ports of Mobile and Galveston and
then ship it by tanker to New York and Los Angeles. Los Angles requires 160,000
barrels per day and New York requires 140,000 barrels per day. The cost of
shipping 1,000 barrels between the various locations are shown in the table below,
where the dash indicates shipments that are not allowed. Determine how to
minimize the transport costs in meeting oil demands of Los Angeles and
New York

[Hint: You need to build a transshipment model in your spreadsheet. To check

your spreadsheet, try setting each decision variable (the flow on each of the 16
arcs) = 1. Your total cost should be $54,710. If this is not the case, check your
model!]

3.1 Suppose Sunco Oil wishes to plan the flow of product from Well to Ports to
Demand cities in order to minimize total costs. How much should be shipped
through the port of Mobile and Galveston, Indicate Well XYZ / Quantity

How Much? ______________ (5 puntos)

From which Wells and what quantities? ______________________ (5 puntos)

3.2 Which Cities will be supplied though the Port of Mobile (indicate city / Quantity
________________________________________________________ (5 puntos)

3.3 What is the minimum cost? _______________________________ (5 puntos)

3.4 What percent of the total capacity (this is all Wells) is being used to satisfy
demand? __________ % (5 puntos)

3.5 Indicate origin and quantity supplied to each demand city Los Angeles and
New York
_________________________________________________________ ( 5 puntos)