Bob is our plushy little teddy colleague at OPTANO. When Bob is around, there's always fun to be had. He enjoys following trends, he is up for any challenge and just loves doing crazy things. His professional interests are mainly software development and solving operations research problems. Combining both gets him really excited. How can he solve a problem by writing a software solution? For his Super Stores he wants to know how he can reduce transportation costs when shipping teddy bears from different warehouses to the stores. Run this sample to find out.
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The application is a simple C# console application. Checkout or download the repository and either run it from an IDE or terminal (requires an installed .NET 6 SDK).
dotnet run --project BobSuperStores/BobSuperStores.csproj -- -s CsvData
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-s|--SourceFileDirectory <Directory>Specifies the directory where the data files should be read from.
Of course you can use any other path containing csv data for the import. The expected input of the folder are the following two files with an input like given in the examples.
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SuperStore.csv
Name;Longitude;Latitude Paderborn;8.698393;51.727691 Frankfurt;8.682127;50.110924 -
Warehouse.csv
Name;Longitude;Latitude;OpeningCosts F120;5.047412109;51.10351093;1500000 F119;0.630908203;47.42064245;1500000
This application uses NUnit as its unit-testing framework. You can run the tests directly from your IDE or terminal.
dotnet test BobSuperStores.Tests/BobSuperStores.Tests.csproj
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