MINIMISATION PROBLEMS (NOT INVOLVING LOOPING)

Problem 5.32

A company must ship from 3 factories to 7 warehouses. The transportation cost per unit from each factory to each warehouse, the requirements of each warehouse, and the capacity of each factory are:

The Transportation Cost Per Unit

Find the minimum cost schedule.

Solution

Step 1 → Finding Initial Feasible Solution by following the Vogel’s Approximation Method (or VAM).

Initial Feasible Solution

Step 2Optimality Test: Since the total number of allocations is equal to “M + N – 1” allocations, the initial solution is straight away tested for ...

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