What is transportation
The purpose is to minimize the cost of shipping goods from one location to another
so that the
needs of each arrival area are met and each every shipping location operates within
its capacity.However, quantative analysis has been used for many other problems
other than the physical distribution of goods.
The methods for implementation for operation research of transporation model are
1) North west Corner method -
2) Least Cost method
3) Vogel's Approximation method
How it is implemented?
• Least Cost Method: Since the objective is to minimize the total transportation
cost, we must try to transport through those routes where the unit
transportation cost is lowest. This method takes into account the minimum
unit cost of transportation for obtaining initial solution.
01- Mumba
Apr i Pune 1500 1000 400000
02- Gandhinag
Apr Kochi ar 4500 4000 1400000
07- Mumba
Apr i Bhopal 3000 3000 9900000
01- Bina(M
Apr P) Pune 4500 3500 1295000
02- Mumba
Apr i Varodara 6500 6000 21600000
03- Bina(M
Apr P) Varodara 5000 4500 1530000
01- Mumba Gandhinag
Apr i ar 3300 3000 950000
07-
Apr Kochi Pune 4000 3500 1920000
02- Bina(M
Apr P) Bhopal 4000 3000 1200000
04-
Apr Kochi Bhopal 3500 3000 1140000
03- Mumba Gandhinag
Apr i ar 3000 3000 900000
05- Bina(M
Apr P) Nagpur 6000 5000 1750000
02-
Apr Kochi Nagpur 4500 4000 1520000
06-
Apr Kochi Varodhra 4000 3500 1120000
04- Mumba
Apr i Nagpur 5500 5000 1900000
05- Bina(M Gandhinag
Apr P) ar 3500 3000 900000
01-
Apr Kochi Nagpur 3000 2500 950000
06- Mumba
Apr i Pune 2200 2000 800000
03-
Apr Kochi Varodara 6500 6000 1920000
04- Bina(M
Apr P) Varodara 2000 1500 510000
Solution:
We have 3 sources i.e Mumbai, Kochi & Bina and 5 destinations i.e Pune, Bhopal,
Varodara, Nagpur & Gandhinagar.
We have been provided with the transportation cost.this cost includes fuel as well as
transport cost.
As we know we have 3 sources & 5 destinations , hence we will have 3 x 5 matrix.
We divide the transportation cost with the quantity available & place them with the
corresponding row & coloumn .at some places we see the repetition for demand &
supply, but here the cell value will remain the same as cost/barrel remains constant.
MATRIX:
This is a case of unbalanced transportation problem, hence forth a dummy row will
be included to adjust the balance demand.
Methodology