Business Applications of Operations Research

CHAPTER 11

Multicommodity Transport Planning

Let us take the case of a company producing five commodities CA, CB, CC, CD, and CE in four plants located in Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Nagpur, and Kochi as shown in Figure 11.1.

Figure 11.1

Each plant has a certain maximum production capacity for each commodity, as given in Table 11.1. It is assumed that the cost of production of these commodities is the same at all the plants.

Table 11.1

Vadodara	Visakhapatnam	Nagpur	Kochi
CA	200	400	800	400
CB	400	600	400	600
CC	800	200	600	800
CD	400	400	200	200
CE	600	800	400	400

The customers for these five commodities are located at different parts ...