(f) The company would like to purchase 1,000 liters of a special ink from one of the three suppliers. The prices quoted by ABC, DEF, and JKL are $12,000, $11,000, and $11,500 respectively. Plot an efficient frontier and indicate which supplier (if any) can be eliminated from further consideration. Explain your answer.

QPrint is an offset printing company. It relies a lot on its supplicrs of ink to produce good quality prints. A top-level team consisting of procurement, production, and warehouse managers was formed to determine the best cost-effective supplier that meets the company's needs. The team agreed that they should do a cost-bind evaluation (i.e. without consideration of prices) of their three key suppliers, namely ABC,DEF and JKL. The team agreed to use the following AHP model and data: Pairwise Comparison Matrices Goal: Best Supplier without consideration of costs Criterion Product Criterion: Sustainability Sub-Criterion: Quality Sub-Criterion: Lend Time Sub-Criterion: Flexibility Sub-Criterion: Use of Green Materials Sub-Criterion: Use of Green Packaging Criterion: Company Size QPrint is an offset printing company. It relies a lot on its supplicrs of ink to produce good quality prints. A top-level team consisting of procurement, production, and warehouse managers was formed to determine the best cost-effective supplier that meets the company's needs. The team agreed that they should do a cost-bind evaluation (i.e. without consideration of prices) of their three key suppliers, namely ABC,DEF and JKL. The team agreed to use the following AHP model and data: Pairwise Comparison Matrices Goal: Best Supplier without consideration of costs Criterion Product Criterion: Sustainability Sub-Criterion: Quality Sub-Criterion: Lend Time Sub-Criterion: Flexibility Sub-Criterion: Use of Green Materials Sub-Criterion: Use of Green Packaging Criterion: Company Size