{"id":33662,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/solutions-plus"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:20:37","slug":"solutions-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/solutions-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Solutions Plus<\/p>\n<p>Solutions Plus is an industrial chemicals company that produces specialized cleaning fluids and solvents for a wide variety of applications. Solutions Plus just<br \/> received an invitation to submit a bid to supply Great North American railroad with a cleaning fluid for locomo- tives. Great North American needs the cleaning fluid<br \/> at 11 locations (railway stations); it provided the following information to Solutions Plus regarding the number of gallons of cleaning fluid required at each location<br \/> (see Table 6.8). Solutions Plus can produce the cleaning fluid at its Cincinnati plant for $1.20 per gal- lon. Even though the Cincinnati location is its only plant,<br \/> Solutions Plus has negotiated with an industrial chemicals company located in Oakland, California, to produce and ship up to 500,000 gallons of the locomotive cleaning<br \/> fluid to selected Solutions Plus customer locations. The Oakland company will charge Solutions Plus $1.65 per gallon to produce the cleaning fluid, but Solutions Plus<br \/> thinks that the lower shipping costs from Oakland to some customer locations may offset the added cost to produce the product. The president of Solutions Plus, Charlie<br \/> Weaver, contacted several trucking companies to negotiate shipping rates between the two production facilities (Cincinnati and Oakland) and the locations where the<br \/> railroad locomotives are cleaned. Table 6.9 shows the quotes received in terms of dollars per gallon. The \u201c\u2014\u201d entries in Table 6.9 identify shipping routes that will<br \/> not be considered because of the large distances involved. These quotes for shipping rates are guaranteed for one year. To submit a bid to the railroad company,<br \/> Solutions Plus must determine the price per gallon it will charge. Solutions Plus usually sells its cleaning fluids for 15% more than its cost to produce and deliver<br \/> the product. For this big contract, however, Fred Roedel, the director of marketing, suggested that maybe the company should consider a smaller profit margin. In<br \/> addition, to ensure that if Solutions Plus wins the bid, it will have adequate capacity to satisfy existing orders as well as accept orders for other new business, the<br \/> management team decided to limit the number of gallons of the locomotive cleaning fluid produced in the Cincinnati plant to 500,000 gallons at most.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>File #1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solutions Plus Solutions Plus is an industrial chemicals company that produces specialized cleaning fluids and solvents for a wide variety of applications. Solutions Plus just received an invitation to submit a bid to supply Great North American railroad with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/solutions-plus\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}