Location Selection Exercise – Center of Gravity

A company is going to construct a new warehouse served by suppliers A, B and C. The annual volume of
shipments from these suppliers are as follows: 140 trucks from A; 110 trucks from B, and 170 trucks
from C. On a map, the places where the suppliers are located look something like the following.

The management desires to determine the best site of the warehouse that minimizes the total shipment
costs.