Consider the transportation table below. Unit costs for each shipping route are in dollars.

$\backslash$table$[[,$Destination,,$],[$Source$,$A$,$B$,$C$,$D$,$E$,$Supply,,,$],[1,$$$12,$$$8,$$$5,$$$10,$$$4,18,,,],[2,$$$6,$$$11,$$$3,$$$7,$$$9,14,,,],[$Demand$,6,8,12,4,2,,,,]]$

The starting solution using the intuitive least cost method is:

$($Note: You must enter a shipment in every cell, even if the shipment is $0..)$