Operations Management
Operations Management
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Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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To determine: The way the transportation problem would address the production cost along with transportation cost.

Introduction: The major objective of the transportation problem is to minimize the distributing cost of a product from a source to an origin. Transportation problem is one of the types of linear programming.

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