Answer to Question #237052 in Operations Research for opr

Question

A company has four factories and three warehouses located in market areas. The capacities of supply points are [ 350 450 520 340 ] and the demands of the destination are[ 460 500 480]. The cost associated with transporting one unit of the resource from a supply point to a destination is as follows

D1 D2 D3

S1 3 2 1

S2 1 1 2

S3 2 1 1

S4 1 2 3

By making the initial allocation using North West Corner Rule, Least Cost Method and Vogel Approximation Method determine optimal allocation that minimises the transportation cost