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Centralized Bakery Reduces Distribution Costs Using Simulation

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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.

Key Words: transportation; vehicle routing; simulation; application

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