Medini Singh

Centralized bakery reduces distribution costs using simulation

Coauthor(s): Sampath Rajagopalan, Thomas Morton, Ephraim Martin, IV.

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Abstract:
To improve the efficiency of product distribution for a centralized bakery, I first performed each person's tasks and discovered that constructing optimal minimum-distance routes would not significantly reduce costs but replacing the physical validation of new routes with a manual mathematical computation or simulation would. The trick was getting management to trust the simulation enough to use it.

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