Asean Aromatics, a manufacturer of perfumes and aromatic oils in India, has three manufacturing plants in Trichy,

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Asean Aromatics, a manufacturer of perfumes and aromatic oils in India, has three manufacturing plants in Trichy, Vijayawada, and Mysore, and warehouses in Chennai, Cochin, and Vizag. The following table shows the shipping costs per hundred gallons between each manufacturing plant and warehouse, and the production capabilities (in hundreds of gallons) of each plant and the capacities (in hundreds of gallons) of each warehouse. The company would like to keep the warehouses filled to capacity to ensure most demand requirements are met.

To Production Capacity From Vizag Chennai Cochin Trichy Vijayawada Mysore Warehouse Capacity 10 $30 $50 $70 $40 $60 $40


1. Formulate this problem as a linear programming model. (Let Xij = 100s of gallons of the product to be shipped from plant i to warehouse j.)

2. Solve the problem using Excel Solver.

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Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains

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