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• Case Study
• By
• The South Group

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• Business Problem
• Binders Beverages has a plant in Denver and a
  warehouse in east Denver. The problem is to get
  the finished product to the warehouse. There is
  a network diagram of the roads from the plant to
  the warehouse and the amount of time for each
  branch is given.

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• What is the shortest route from the plant to the
  warehouse?
• To solve this we must first correct an error in
  the network diagram provided in the text book.
• This is the diagram as provided in the text.

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When looking at the information about how much
time it takes on the branches to and from the
nodes, it becomes apparent that there should be a
branch connecting code 3 and 5. This is the
corrected network diagram, with the added branch
in red.
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• Open QM For Windows.
• Select the modules drop down menu and select the
  networks option.

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• Next open a new shortest route file.

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Next Enter the number of branches for the problem.
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Fill in data grid with problem data. Also set
the destination and origin. Solve
the problem by clicking the solve button
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• 7. The solution can be viewed in the data grid

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• The shortest route is 1 ? 2 ? 4 ? 8 ? 9 ? 10.
• It takes 65 minutes.
• The shortest route is shown in red on the
  following diagram.

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