Discuss a balanced transportation problem and how do you handle the constraints?
What is an unbalanced transportation problem? How do you handle the constraints?
Using WHAT'S BEST ! determine the least cost shipping schedule where each of three (3) hardware vendors provide up to two hundred (200) units and each of six(6) buyers demand one hundred (100) units. The shipping costs (in dollars per unit) which are provided from Buyer 1 to Buyer 6 are as follows:
Buyer 1 Buyer 2 Buyer 3 Buyer 4 Buyer 5 Buyer 6
Nick's Nuts $100 $110 $90 $80 $70 $120
Henry's $150 $110 $190 $50 $120 $150
Anthony's $130 $125 $135 $130 $100 $135