You are required to develop a Distribution System, a Transportation System, or a Logistics Network within a Supply Chain of your choice. Please consider the following tasks:
a. Critically and thoroughly review and report the relevant literature and highlight the critical issues faced by supply chains; issues related to distribution systems and/or logistics networks, in both domestic and international level.
b. Design a distribution system, a transportation system, or a logistics network for the demand side of a supply chain of your choice. Refer to your literature review and address at least one of the major issues your literature review highlighted in Supply Chain Network Design. Include a technical report with all the details of your deigned network, the formulations and models, and the solutions. Address and describe the theories, models and methods you have considered. Explain the modelling, the solution method and the final results in detail.
c. After designing your network, write a managerial report explaining and rationalising your suggested network to the top manager(s). Include a short presentation in this report.
