business case 3

Business Case 3

BUSA 421 Data Mining

Fall 2020

Instructor: Prof. Brodnax

INCOME _ DISTRICT _ CONDITION

B&R Oil and Gas maintains many waste disposal tanks to serve sites across 20 counties as noted in

the figure below (should look familiar). Each tank needs to serve production sites either from the

residing county or from the adjacent counties. Please respond to the logistics management

questions below for our management team.

Provide a thorough analysis that explains the result set from the Excel run. The detailed analysis should

document each process (step) through the analysis and include responses to the following:

1. Identify the objective variable and explain what it means.

2. Identify the decision variables and explain each.

3. Create and provide the objective function.

4. Determine and note all of the constraints for each county and find the counties identified with the

minimum number based on the objective function.

5. What is the minimum number of disposal tanks needed to cover all 20 counties and note which

counties those are?

Use the data file posted. Please save your responses into a Word document. Be sure and provide clear detail in

your responses for at the management level (very important). Also, post the Excel workbook as part of the

objective evidence as to how you derived your responses. Please post both documents in the "Business Case 3

Dropbox" NLT 11:59 PM on 18 Nov.