Suppose you are a small business that begins with just one warehouse and one retail store. As you become more and more successful, you eventually add warehouses, distribution centers, and retail stores as follows:
|
Year
|
Whse
|
Dist Ctr
|
Retail
|
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
2
|
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
3
|
|
5
|
3
|
2
|
10
|
|
6
|
3
|
2
|
25
|
|
7
|
4
|
2
|
33
|
|
8
|
6
|
3
|
50
|
|
9
|
6
|
3
|
75
|
|
10
|
6
|
4
|
100
|
If you are scheduling the delivery of the products from the warehouses to the retail stores, in which year will you begin to utilize the linear programming models you learned about in this module? Why? Notice that there is no one answer to this question.