Operations Management
Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780132921145
Author: Jay Heizer
Publisher: PEARSON
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To determine: Northeast corner rule and the initial solution for Company A

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 typesof linear programming.

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