PERSONAL SELLING:
ALLIED
STANDARD BRANDS
ROUTING PROBLEM
Allied Standard Brands
After Fran has divided her territory into five wedge shaped sections, she needs to route her trip for each day. As a generalization, the shortest route would be one that is circular; accounts should be visited such that paths do not criss cross and the s
ame road should not be used to travel to and from an account.
The ray sweep method will result in a cloverleaf routing pattern as illustrated below.
Allied Standard Brands
Spoon Lake County Territory
If you did not end up with daily territories that look like the above, then you probably do not have a workload that is equal for each day of the week with respect to the number of accounts visited and to the amount of travel time. For a demonstration of
the ray sweep mehod that was used to generate the above wedge shaped boundaries,
click here.
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