Challenge #48: Calculating Distribution Priority

[GeneR]

The link to last week’s challenge is HERE.

Use Case:  There are 3 warehouses across the US that supply 26 retail locations. The retailers have products/items that are in high demand and, as a result, out of supply within their stores.

Your job as a distribution manager is to allocate as much product from the warehouses as possible, but there are a few constraints:

1. A retailer location can only be supplied by the nearest warehouse.
2. Prioritization of product allocation across retailers is dependent on required product/item need at the location. For example, is there higher priority where there is the highest required?

Objective:  Allocate as much product from the 3 warehouses as possible to the 26 retail locations

[LBhat]

Missed the answers.

[LBhat]

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[TaraM]

Nice work @LBhat! I moved your solution image into a spoiler tag so as not to give it away! I think this was the fastest solution turn around we've had to a weekly exercise.

[MattD]

Here's a solution:

[NicoleJohnson]

Solution!

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[SeanAdams]

Slightly more complex answer

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uses an iterative macro to do the supply levelling
the iterative macro makes this very easy - just take the highest priority demand line for any given warehouse and product and fulfil that line - then iterate the remainder (repeat)

But it was good to see the two alternatives ( the running total version from @MattD @LBhat and @TaraM - and the unfilfilled demand version from @NicoleJohnson )

[estherb47]

similar approach to others, with the individual tools (to make it different than the iterative macro exercise)

[LordNeilLord]

Well that took longer than expected:

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[patrick_digan]

Very similar to others

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