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You are a scheduling manager for a small group of government contractors working in the Sudan. Because travel to the region is difficult and expensive, each contractor works for a three-months consecutive deployment before returning home. Also, a different number of contractors is required cach month (in the table below). It costs $1,999 to transport each person to the country (assume the return trip is free) and while they are working they receive $11,000 per month. Contractors required per month. May 36 Oct Nov Dec Sep 39 Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug 21 24 24 37 27 21 23 31 37 24 Assuming your goal is to minimize total cost of operations, please set up and solve this scheduling problem in Excel. Make sure to label you objective function, constraints, and decision/choice variables.

You are a scheduling manager for a small group of government contractors working in the Sudan. Because travel to the region is difficult and expensive, each contractor works for a three-months consecutive deployment before returning home. Also, a different number of contractors is required cach month (in the table below). It costs $1,999 to transport each person to the country (assume the return trip is free) and while they are working they receive $11,000 per month. Contractors required per month. May 36 Oct Nov Dec Sep 39 Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug 21 24 24 37 27 21 23 31 37 24 Assuming your goal is to minimize total cost of operations, please set up and solve this scheduling problem in Excel. Make sure to label you objective function, constraints, and decision/choice variables.

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You are a scheduling manager for a small group of government contractors working in the Sudan. Because travel to the region is difficult and expensive, each contractor works for a three-months consecutive deployment before returning home. Also, a different number of contractors is required cach month (in the table below). It costs $1,999 to transport each person to the country (assume the return trip is free) and while they are working they receive $11,000 per month. Contractors required per month. Мay 36 Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Sep 39 Aug Oct Nov Dec 21 23 31 37 24 24 24 37 27 21 Assuming your goal is to minimize total cost of operations, please set up and solve this scheduling problem in Excel. Make sure to label you objective function, constraints, and decision/choice variables.
Transcribed Image Text:You are a scheduling manager for a small group of government contractors working in the Sudan. Because travel to the region is difficult and expensive, each contractor works for a three-months consecutive deployment before returning home. Also, a different number of contractors is required cach month (in the table below). It costs $1,999 to transport each person to the country (assume the return trip is free) and while they are working they receive $11,000 per month. Contractors required per month. Мay 36 Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Sep 39 Aug Oct Nov Dec 21 23 31 37 24 24 24 37 27 21 Assuming your goal is to minimize total cost of operations, please set up and solve this scheduling problem in Excel. Make sure to label you objective function, constraints, and decision/choice variables.
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