Friday, April 4, 2014

Business Logistics for Aviation





Part II: Problem-Solving Questions (25 points)
Question 1 (5 points):
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. supplied aircraft doors to a leading aircraft manufacturer. In 2013, it made a total of 120 deliveries. The following table presents a summary of lead time performance for all the 120 delivery cycles. Based on the information provided in the table, calculate the mean lead time and its coefficient of variation.

Lead time (in days)
Number of deliveries
36
70
40
30
33
20




Question 2 (10 points):
The following table provides the historical world air freight traffic and world GDP from 2001 through 2010.

Year
World Air Freight Traffic (RTK in million)
World GDP (in constant 2000 US $)
2001
110,869
$32,046,348,810,620.30
2002
117,510
$33,304,640,616,151.20
2003
124,207
$37,465,967,921,629.80
2004
139,037
$42,228,984,476,590.60
2005
142,579
$45,658,316,886,272.40
2006
152,305
$49,506,293,314,880.40
2007
159,519
$55,848,896,227,304.20
2008
157,006
$61,304,541,579,435.60
2009
140,356
$58,088,277,293,607.50
2010
172,177
$63,123,887,517,709.30
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Based on the information provided in the above table, answer the following two questions.

(1)   Develop one graph to display the historical annual world air freight traffic and world GDP from 2001 to 2010, using 2001 as the baseline year.





(2)   Based on the historical world air freight traffic and world GDP data during 2001 and 2010, do you find the support for the argument that the world air freight grows about twice as fast as world GDP in the time period concerned? Explain how you prove whether this argument holds true.







Question 3 (10 points):
Using the same information provided in the class simulation exercise “DHL Supply Chain (02/27/14)” and the corresponding SOLVER template available on Blackboard, calculate the minimum carbon emission associated with having a budget of CNY 3.63 billion for the total production and shipping costs. 






Based on the optimization solutions derived from SOLVER, put the results into the corresponding blanks to complete the following supply chain matrix.

Supply Chain Matrix
Select (0/1)
Air
Express
Road
Road LTL
Road-Network
Rail
Water
LCD 42 ODM1
LCD 42 ODM2
LCD 42 ODM3
LCD 42 ODM4
LCD42 ODM5
LCD42 ODM6
LCD 42 OMD7
LCD 32 ODM1
LCD 32 ODM2

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