Stateline Shipping and Transport In the “Stateline Shipping and Transport Company” case there is the manager Rachel Sundusky of the South –Atlantic office of the Stateline Shipping and Transport Company. She is trying to negotiate a new shipping contract with Polychem where Stateline picks up and transport waste product form its six plants to three waste disposal sites. In this problem we are trying to determine the shipping routes the will minimize Stateline total cost. In the first part
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Stateline Shipping and Transport Company School of Business MAT 540 This paper was presented in submission for MAT 540 assignment four (Part 1 Only). Abstract This paper serves as a written response to the instructions and questions asked in assignment four. Assignment four instructed the writer to read the case problem Stateline Shipping and Transport Company from pages 273-274 in the text, Introduction to Management Science by Bernard W. Taylor. The assignment then directed the writer
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Stateline Shipping and Transport Company The transportation model will be set up by assigning a variable to each site. The plants Danville, Selma, and Columbus are 1, 2 and 3 respectively. This makes the waste disposal sites at White Water, Los Canos, Duras variables A, B and C, respectively. Decision variables: 1. Ship from 1: x1A, x1B, x1C 2. Ship from 2; x2A, x2B, x2C, 3. Ship from 3: x3A, x3B
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Case Problem: Stateline Shipping and Transport Company Assignment #4 Case Problem: Stateline Shipping and Transport Company MAT540: Quantitative Methods Vargha Azad 09/08/13 In Excel, or other suitable program, develop a model for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposal sites. Solve the model you developed in #1 (above) and clearly describe the results. In Excel, or other suitable
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Stateline Shipping and Transport Company Carla Coleman Strayer University MAT 540: Quantitative Method Dr. Luke Howard March 20, 2014 2014 Case Study: Stateline Shipping and Transport Company In this case study, we are introduced to Rachel Sundusky, the manager of the South-Atlantic office of the Stateline Shipping and Transport Company. The information we are given is that Rachel is in the process of negotiating
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Assignment #4: Case Problem “Stateline Shipping and Transport Company” 1. In Excel, or other suitable program, develop a model for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposal sites. White water Los Canos Duras Availability Kingsport $12.00 $15.00 $17.00 35 Danville $14.00 $9.00 $10.00 26 Macon $13.00 $20.00 $11.00 42 Selma $17.00 $16.00 $19.00 53 Columbus $7.00 $14.00 $12.00 29 Allentown $22.00 $16.00 $18.00 38 Capacity 65 80 105 223 The objective of the problem
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(1) Original problem This is a Transportation problem for cost minimization. The problem is that the company has six collection centres from where company wants to collect waste and then transported to three disposable centres at a minimum cost. The different costs from collection centres to disposable sites are given in a table as shown in the following table. White water Los Canos Duras Availability (bbl) Kingsport $12.00 $15.00 $17.00 35 Danville $14.00 $9.00 $10.00 26 Macon $13.00 $20
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Stateline Shipping And Transport Company 1. Formulation of the Problem The Stateline Shipping and Transport Company wanted to transport industrial wastes from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposable sites. The problem can be represented in as a Transportation table as shown below. Our problem is to find roots to disposable sites, such that the cost of transportation is minimized.. White water Los Canos Duras Availability (bbl) Kingsport $12.00 $15.00 $17.00 35 Danville $14.00 $9.00 $10
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1. Develop a transportation model for shipping from the 6 plants directly to the 3 disposal sites. Describe and implement the model. Please see tab one (Plant to Waste Shipment) of the attached spreadsheet after the data was analyzed and dropped into the Excel Spreadsheet and the Data Solver was utilized to obtain the stated highlighted results. The cost is $2,822 to ship. 2. Solve the model given in 1 and describe the results. The results of the model are as follows: 35 barrels
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