Centralized Bakery Reduces Distribution Costs Using Simulation

  • Authors:
  • Sampath Rajagopalan;Medini R. Singh;Thomas E. Morton;Ephraim Martin, IV

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 1998

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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.