Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

Module C Transportation Models

Module Outline

1. Transportation Modeling 730

2. Developing an Initial Solution 732

3. The Stepping-Stone Method 734

4. Special Issues in Modeling 737

Learning Objectives

1. LO C.1 Develop an initial solution to a transportation model with the northwest-corner and intuitive lowest-cost methods 732

2. LO C.2 Solve a problem with the stepping-stone method 734

3. LO C.3 Balance a transportation problem 737

4. LO C.4 Deal with a problem that has degeneracy 737

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