ABC limited has 3 warehouses WH1, WH2, WH3 from where it demands placed by 5 of its customers

CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.

Quantity ordered by different customers of ABC ltd. Is as below:

Cell consisting of formulas are highlighted – (Total is sum of CS1 + CS2 + CS3 + CS4 + CS5):

CS1 CS2 CS3 CS4 CS5 Total

Order
Quantity 14000 35000 76000 36000 12000 173000

Inventory available with company ABC ltd. At its warehouses is as below:

WH1 WH2 WH3 Total

Available 186000
inventory 66000 50000 70000

Per unit Cost of transportation from each warehouse to customer location is given below:

  CS1 CS2 CS3 CS4 CS5

WH1 3.26 9.31 4.49 9.96 8.61
WH2 5.5 8.75 9.67 5.05 4.54
WH3 7.66 3.36 8.13 4.33 8.59

Q. Your objective is to use EXCEL SOLVER technique to identify how many products must be sent
from different warehouses to different customers in order to minimize the total cost of
transportation for ABC ltd. considering ABC ltd. needs to satisfy the ordered demand by all it’s
customers and available inventory at different warehouses,

Submission items:

1. Excel working file consisting of SOLVER OUTPUT (Opening the SOLVER OPTION must show
the objective function you’ve set and all the constraints applied), the same must apply to
the raw data to consider the solution as final,
2. Second sheet in the same excel must contain the final output/answer with explaination /
justification to the answer
3. FileName – SolverAssignment_RollNumber.xlsx

Submission Timeline: Wednesday, EoD (12 midnight)

Regards,