Quantitative Methods-II

Transportation
Problem
of
PepsiCo Kishan Kumar Bisoyi 18PGP080
Navin Kumar. 18PGP106
Pooja Yadav. 18PGP136
Vishal Bhaskar Pawar18PGP218
Maeraj M. 18PGP236
 PepsiCo

 American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation

 Formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and

Frito-Lay, Inc.

 Deals in manufacturing and distribution of grain-based snack foods,

beverages

 Three-channel distribution Strategies known as Direct store

delivery, Customer warehouse and Third-party distributor networks
Dealer Name Demand
Dealer 1 1043
Dealer 2 1025 Depot Name Capacities
Dealer 3 1044
Dealer 4 1060 A 1560
Dealer 5 1006 B 1873
Dealer 6 1059
Dealer 7 1052 C 1728
Dealer 8 1049 D 1735
Dealer 9 982
E 2100
Dealer 10 1108
Dealer 11 1068 F 2332
Dealer 12 1041
G 2620
Dealer 13 1107
Dealer 14 1046 H 1782
Dealer 15 1040 Total 15730
Total
Demand by dealer
15730 Capacity of depot
Objective
 Reducing cost
 Minimise the cost of distribution,
 It helps. In identifying which depot should supply to which dealer

 Optimization and profit maximization

 It doesn’t led to wastage of resources
 Minimizing the cost will increase the profit