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State Civil Supplies: Value People, Value Their Money

Rohit Kapoor; Ayushi Agrawal; Soumyajyoti Datta

Product #:9B17D014
Supplier:Ivey/ISB
Discipline:International Business, Operations Management
Setting:India, 2014
Details:Case (PDF) • 8 pages • 2017-09-14 (Rev: 2017-10-13)

Subjects:

Business managementInternational businessOperations and supply chain management

Industries:

Public administration and nonprofits

Geography:

IndiaAsia
Your Price:$9.71

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In November 2014, a senior administrative service officer at Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited was faced with the problem of determining how to best allocate food grain according to location demands. She needed to choose the best delivery routes and provide a cost-effective means of meeting demands for food grain from fair-price shops. How should she approach this problem? How should she manage any changes that she makes in the distribution plans?

Learning Objectives

The case can be used to teach the concepts of transportation problems and is suitable for postgraduate operations management courses, and undergraduate or postgraduate courses on decision sciences and operations research. It is also relevant for any practitioner course on logistics and supply chain management. Discussion of the case can provide students with an understanding of the following:
  • The large-scale logistics associated with the shipment of commodities;
  • The challenges of implementing an optimization algorithm in a public sector context;
  • The transportation cost matrix and problem solving using MS Excel Solver Add-in
  • The differences between a balanced transportation problem and an unbalanced transportation problem
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