Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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• C.2 Consider the transportation table below Unit costs for each shipping route are in dollars. What is the total cost of the basic feasible solution that the intuitive lowest-cost method would find for this problem?
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