Transportation Model and it's variants
Transportation Model and it's variants The transportation model deals with a special class of linear programming problem in which the objective is to transport a homogeneous commodity from various origins or factories to different destinations or markets at a total minimum cost. To understand the problem more clearly, let us take an example and discuss the rationale of transportation problem. Three factories A, B and C manufactures sugar and are located in different regions. Factory A manufactures, b1 tons of sugar per year and B manufactures b2 tons of sugar per year and C manufactures b3 tons of sugar. The sugar is required by four markets W, X, Y and Z. The requirement of the four markets is as follows: Demand for sugar in Markets W, X, Yand Z is d1, d2, d3 and d4 tons respectively. The transportation cost of one ton of sugar from each factory to market is given in the matrix below. The objective is to transport sugar from factories to the markets at a minimum total tran...
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