7. Business Analytics with Shipment Models
Chapter Objectives
• Explain shipment models and their structure as special cases of mathematical programming
• Demonstrate the use of network diagrams for the transportation and transshipment problems
• Learn how to expand transshipment models by adding layers of warehouses or distribution centers
• Learn how to check for the feasibility of the transportation models before even attempting to formulate and solve the model
• Use Excel templates to set up and formulate transportation or transshipment models as linear programming models
• Demonstrate the Solver solutions for the transportation and transshipment problems
• Discuss the benefits of using a network diagram to represent a transportation or ...
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