Please answer the questions in the last picture and answer questions in a very similar manner as the two pictures posted below. For how they used a route across America given the pool points and how much they decided to ship in each of those routes. The answer needs to be a little different though.
Silver Tap, a large retailer who has experienced tremendous success selling the Le Fancy clothing line in their other stores on the east coast will be opening their largest store in San Diego, California. - Based on feedback from their on-line survey, Silver Tap predicted huge sale of the Le Fancy t-shirts at their new location and as a result, they ordered 3,000 t-shirts for store opening day with a 4-day delivery window and an additional 3,000 shirts to be delivered 3 weeks later. - They have a second location in Seattle, WA that will also be opening on the same day. They have also they ordered 1,000 t-shirts for store opening day with a 4-day delivery window and an additional 750 shirts to be delivered 3 weeks later. - MK Retailer located in Medford, OR. also ordered shirts from ACE. They need 5,000 t-shirts delivered in 2 days and 2,500 shirts delivered 2 weeks later. - ACE Company is the only distributor of Le Fancy, a fashionable t-shirt line designed just for women. - ACE company has 3 distribution warehouses (Tampa, FI, Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA.) - Current inventory for Le Fancy tshirts at the warehouses are 31,000,10,000 and 15,000, respectively - ACE Co. has a contract with Floyd Logistics to move goods Transportation from distribution warehouse Partner Profile centers to retailers. - Floyd Logistics provides Floyd Transportation also modeling rates for manual has several pool looints network optimization: throughout the US: - Topeka, KS - Buffalo, SD - TL Rate is $2.00 per mile with a $250 stop off fee minimum weight is 2,500 - Austin, TX lbs per truck up to 9,100 lbs. - Atlanta, GA - Scottsdale, AZ - LTL Rate is $1.25 per pound with an - Salt Lake City, UT absolute min charge of $350.00 - Olympia, WA - 1 box contains 10 shirts - 1 box weighs 20lbs - 10 boxes fit on a pallet - 1 empty pallet weighs 45lbs - Cubic Capacity limits 9 boxes per pallet - TL=15 pallets or 9,100lbs - LTL has a max of 3 pallets or 1,500lbs Pool Location Detail Manually - provide the best route that would deliver all the merchandise to both retailers on time at the lowest, most cost-effective way possible. - How many overall loads by mode? - How many drops? - Did you use pool points? If so, why and where? - If you did not choose to consolidate shipping, why? - How much do you think you saved by using pool points? - What would your cost be if you did not use pool-points? 1. 10TL and 8LTL from Tampa to the Salt Lake City Pool Point. 9TL and 14LTL total from the pool point to each retailer. 2. Four drops total if using pool point, three drops total if direct ship. 3. We chose to use a pool point at the Salt Lake City location. We chose this pool point because we felt that it was the best central location between the three retailers. Without using the pool point, the overall mileage of the trip to all retailers would have doubled. We decided to use pool points as our alternative method, because it is actually cheaper to direct ship even though the mileage would double. 4. We did consolidate shipping to include partial loads in less trucking loads. 5. By using pool points, we cut the mileage costs in half. However, it's actually more expensive to use the pool points as far as shipping costs rather than using direct shipping. 6. If we didn't use pool points, our total cost would have been $58,643.75. This is $22,453.25 cheaper than the total cost of $81,097 using pool points
