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The document outlines the final exam details for the course 'Supply Chain Design and Analysis' at the University of Technology - VNUHCM, scheduled for May 17, 2023. It includes specific instructions regarding materials allowed during the exam and presents a series of questions related to supply chain modeling, transportation costs, and demand-weighted distances. The exam assesses students' understanding of both actual and optimized baselines, as well as their ability to establish mathematical models for minimizing transportation costs and demand distances.

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The document outlines the final exam details for the course 'Supply Chain Design and Analysis' at the University of Technology - VNUHCM, scheduled for May 17, 2023. It includes specific instructions regarding materials allowed during the exam and presents a series of questions related to supply chain modeling, transportation costs, and demand-weighted distances. The exam assesses students' understanding of both actual and optimized baselines, as well as their ability to establish mathematical models for minimizing transportation costs and demand distances.

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Lecturer: Approved by:


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(The above part must be hidden when copying for exam)

Semester/Academic year 2 2022-2023


FINAL EXAM Date 17/05/2023
Course title Supply chain design and analysis
Course ID IM3091
Duration 90 min. Code 0001, 0002
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - VNUHCM
SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Notes: - Only 01 written A4 paper sheet with 2 sides
- Only 01 blank Excel sheet
- No internet-connected devices are allowed

Question 1:
actual baseline optimized baseline
Differences - The actual baseline is a - An optimized baseline is not as well defined as an
(6 pts) representation of the supply chain actual baseline. You have some flexibility in how
exactly as it was run in the past. In you set up the optimized baseline model. And you
practice, most modelers use data from may want to run several versions of the optimized
the previous year to build the actual baseline. The spirit of the optimized baseline is to
baseline model. clean up the baseline and come up with a model of
- In the actual baseline, we modeled what should have happened.
everything that actually happened. - In the optimized baseline, you want to replicate
what should have happened based on the rules you
had in place and if you executed them according to
plan.
Example We modeled everything that We run the model to minimize the total
(4 pts) happened, calculated the total transportation cost through setting the constraints
transportation cost using the historical that we would like to represent the rules to achieve
data, and compared the solution with the optimization.
the actual cost.

Question 2: LO1 - 10 points


- COG does not minimize what you want to minimize: weighted average distance. For example, it might point to the
middle of a large lake, an ocean, the top of a tall mountain, a wildlife preserve, or the middle of a barren desert.

- It will almost never land in a location that exploits existing infrastructure, such as a city, a population center with a
workforce, railways, highways, or ports. The method cannot take advantage of true road distances or travel
restrictions—it has to rely on straight-line estimates based on latitude and longitude.

- It cannot be extended to include factors like costs, capacities, different types of facilities, different products, multiple
levels of facilities (hub and spoke, suppliers, warehouses, retailers, etc.), or other practical considerations.

Question 3: LO1 - 10 points:

a. (3 points) The latitude of COG: 21.74


The longitude of COG: 147.71
b. (3 points) The average population-weighted distance from COG to the ten cities in miles: 378.62

c. (4 points) For COG, the percentage of population within 250 miles: 12.87%

Question 4: LO2 - 14 points.

a. (5 points) The unit transportation cost ($/km) for the Southern region: 2.20
The unit transportation cost ($/km) for the Northern region: 1.98

Stu. ID: ___________________Stu. Full Name: ___________________________________Question Sheet Code: 0001

P1
The average unit transportation cost estimated from city A to all the destination cities: 2.09
b. (9 points) The average unit transportation cost: 2.13
This value is significant? Why? Yes because P-value < 0.05

Question 5:
a. (4 points) Establish the mathematical model to minimize the total demand-weighted distance

b. (5 points) What is the total demand weighted distance? 3.150.000


Where are the 3 stores located? Flora, Facet, and Kenji
Which store serves which market? Flora  Flora; Facet  Facet; Kenji  Bentie, Kenji and Nobi
c. (5 points) If the company wants to open 4 stores. How many percentages of the average distance decrease? 50%

Question 6:

a. (7 points) Establish the mathematical model to solve the company problem.

Stu. ID: ___________________Stu. Full Name: ___________________________________Question Sheet Code: 0001

P2
b. (10 points) What is the total demand served within 50 km? 330.000
Where are the 3 stores located? Facet, Bentie and Nobi
Which store serves which market? Facet  Flora, Facet; Bentie  Bentie; Nobi Kenji and Nobi
c. (5 points) If the company wants to open 4 stores. How many percentages of the total demand served within 50 km
increase? 0%
d. (5 points) No, still 330.000
If yes, how many percentages in the change of objective function? 0%
e. (5 points) Constraint (3) must be changed to: Y11 = 1; Y12 = 1; Y33 = 1; Y44 = 1; Y55 = 1
f. (5 points) Both solutions have the same value of objective function of 330.000
g. (5 points) In this case, the value of high service demand set for the second model should be: 330.000
Why? The second model is run to improve the first model (question a) thus one of its constraints must ensure
the objective function of the first model is respected. That means the value of the total demand served within 50
km (objective function of the first model) should be set as the high-service demand for the second model.

Stu. ID: ___________________Stu. Full Name: ___________________________________Question Sheet Code: 0001

P3

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