Timeline for Model for shipping widgets in an optimal way
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| May 11, 2011 at 13:21 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | I assumed that there would be some differential price for using the larger boxes. If not, then Robert is right that there's no point in using the 200 widget boxes. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 5:49 | comment | added | Robert Israel | Although there are multiple bin sizes (300 widget and 200 widget boxes), there is no advantage (in the problem as described, where the objective is to minimize the number of boxes) to ever using a 200-widget box. So it's just an ordinary bin-packing problem. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 4:15 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | In your example, none of the locations demanded more than 100 widgets. Does it happen that a single location will sometimes demand more than 100 widgets? In general, would you be willing to use multiple bags to the same location even if the bags are smaller than 100 widgets? Is there an extra cost associated with doing this? | |
| May 11, 2011 at 3:53 | vote | accept | TerryB | ||
| May 11, 2011 at 0:28 | history | answered | Brian Borchers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |