Consider a Department Store That Must Make Weekly Shipments of a Certain

question 42

Essay

Consider a department store that must make weekly shipments of a certain product from two different warehouses to four different stores.
a.How could a quantitative approach to decision making be used to solve this problem?
b.What would be the uncontrollable inputs for which data must be gathered?
c.What would be the decision variables of the mathematical model? the objective function? the constraints?
d.Is the model deterministic or stochastic?
e.Suggest assumptions that could be made to simplify the model.

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