A manufacturer operates three factories and dispatches his products to five different retail shops. The Table below
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A manufacturer operates three factories and dispatches his products to five different retail shops. The Table below indicates the capacities of the three factories, the quantity of products required at the various retail shops and the cost of shipping one unit of the product from each of three factories to each of the five retail shops.
Factories | Retail shops | Supply | ||||
A | B | C | D | E | ||
X | 1 | 9 | 13 | 36 | 51 | 50 |
Y | 24 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 100 |
Z | 14 | 33 | 1 | 23 | 26 | 150 |
Demand | 100 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 40 |
Use the transportation method to determine the optimal transportation schedule (8 marks)
Formulate a linear programming model for the problem (2 marks)
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Intermediate Accounting
ISBN: 978-0324659139
11th edition
Authors: Loren A. Nikolai, John D. Bazley, Jefferson P. Jones
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