Ten leading universities have made use of these materials. Once the truck leaves, it is unavailable for further customer shipments until it returns.
Stock is stored in multiple locations and customer orders arrive randomly.
Inventory must be ordered and distributed throughout the system to prevent stockouts, but cost is also a consideration. Analysis of this problem should consider warehousing cost, inventory holding cost, transshipment routes, and customer service. Explore photographs and narrated video of the factory upon which the Llenroc Plastics case was based. Press 7 is a multimillion-dollar automated press that is one of the capacity bottlenecks of the factory. It is running at only 80 percent of its theoretical capacity.