Case Study Analysis: Abstract This analysis examines freight cost and cleaning fluid supplies at two locations; Cincinnati and Oakland, to determine the optimal distribution network to supply the cleaning fluid to Great North American at minimal cost to Solutions Plus. Based on projected cost a bid recommendation is made and decision factors related to the analysis are discussed. Keywords: Solutions Plus, Cost minimization, Breakeven, Bid, Shipping Cost Background Solutions Plus is an industrial chemicals company that produces cleaning fluids and solvents for many applications. Great North American railroad is taking bids for delivery of a cleaning fluid for its locomotives at eleven different locations. Solutions Plus can …show more content…
This also leads into the route capacity constraint. Oakland capacity is limited to 50,000 gallons and Cincinnati capacity to 500,000 gallons. The shipping cost and/or unavailability of transportation between the plants and some locomotive locations will eliminate some of the routes due to cost inefficiency. These routes are the unacceptable routes and will not be considered for distribution from the specified plant. By removing unacceptable routes, Solutions Plus is able to build a linear programming solution to determine which plant/locomotive location combinations are optimal. Based on the shipping cost provided, the routes that are eliminated are as follows: 1) From Cincinnati to Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Glendale, and Sacramento 2) From Oakland to Houston, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Little Rock, and Bridgeport In order to minimize cost, the 500,000 gallons of cleaning fluid from the Cincinnati plant will be distributed as follows: 1) El Paso – 6,583 at a cost of $13,429.67 2) Pendleton – 80,290 at a cost of $162,988.70 3) Houston - 100,447 at a cost of $165,737.55 4) Kansas City – 106,279 at a cost of $165,795.99 5) Jacksonville – 48,285 at a cost of $74,359.33 6) Little Rock – 88,335 at a cost of $136,036.33 7) Bridgeport – 69,780 at a cost of $107,460.86 The 50,000 gallons of cleaning fluid from the
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The applicants are morally correct as long as their action promotes their long term interest. If their action produces or will produce for them a greater outcome of good, versus evil in the long hall than any other alternative, than that action is the right one to act on, and the individual should take that to be a moral act. An Assessment of Morality by Ethicsinbusiness.net
As a member of management Clive Jenkins is responsible for boosting employee morale to ensure that company goals are met
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Read Rush Johnson Farms Inc. v. Missouri Farms Association, 555 S.W.2d 61 and post a draft case study to the discussion board. Identify the Facts, Issue, Holding, Reasoning and Disposition. Case study #1 will be due week 3. This exercise will help you work through the reading a case prior to receiving a grade. Use the LEXIS NEXIS database through the Webster library to access the case.
* Loads were picked up from location A and delivered to one of 5 warehouses, placed on another truck with optimized route for location B (software driven route optimization)
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Build the management-research question hierarchy, through the investigative questions stage. Then compare your list with the measurement questions asked.
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Young Professional magazine was developed for a target audience of recent college graduates who are in their first 10 years in a business/professional career. In its two years of publication the magazine has been fairly successful. Now the publisher is interested in expanding the magazine’s advertising base. Potential advertisers continually ask about the demographics and interests of subscribers to Young Professional. To collect this information the magazine has commissioned a survey to develop a profile of its subscribers. The survey results will be used to help the magazine choose articles of interest and provide advertisers with a profile of subscribers. As a new employee of the magazine, you have been
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If there are no feasible solutions, explain what is needed to produce 30 tons of fuel additive and 15 tons of solvent base.
The optimized route details the most efficient, and cost-effective course, and deviations from that itinerary, generally reduce the profit of the load. Fleet management software can include the preferred fuel stops into the route. Using complex algorithms, the program calculates how far off the route the fuel stop is, while weighing in the cost of the fuel at that station. Refueling stops, that reflect the least route departure, at the maximum cost savings, are part of the planned route the driver will follow. This eliminates many of the deadhead miles that result in reaching an off-course refueling station.