Exam 16: Supplement Operational Decision-Making Tools: Transportation and Transshipment Models

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total cost of the shipping plan is:

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total amount shipped from Portland to Dallas is:

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total amount shipped from Boise to Los Angeles is:

The stepping-stone method is a quantitative technique that can be used to solve transportation models quantitatively.

In an unbalanced transportation problem supply and demand are not equal.

Use this problem for the next four (4)questions. A company has manufacturing plants in Las Vegas,Portland,and Seattle.Items produced from these plants are boxed and shipped to warehouses in Minneapolis and Chicago where they are tested and repackaged for distribution to final customers in New York,Miami,and Charlotte.The network of transshipment routes shown below indicates the cost associated with shipping a box from the plants to the warehouses and then the cost of shipping the repackaged unit from the warehouses to the final customers. Assume that the supply and demand requirements are as shown in the table below. The company would like to determine the lowest cost shipping and distribution plan. The following solution was produced using Microsoft Excel. -How many boxes are sent from Seattle to the Chicago transshipment point?

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: How many units of New York demand are supplied from Omaha?

In a transportation model each source is able to supply a fixed number of units of the product and each destination has a fixed demand for the product.

Each cell in a transportation table represents the amount transported from one source to all destinations.

It is not possible to solve transportation models using spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel.

Use this problem for the next four (4)questions. Anderson Corporation manufactures a product at three different facilities located at Boston,Philadelphia and Atlanta and ships them to warehouses at Chicago,New York,and Dallas.The Boston and Atlanta plants can also ship these products to Philadelphia.The cost to ship one product between facilities,along with the monthly capacities and requirements are shown in the table below.The company would like a plan to minimize total transportation costs. Excel provides the following optimal solution: -Which facility is not producing at capacity?

Transportation models can be solved within the context of a transportation table.

Having more than one shipping distribution but with the same total cost is known as:

How many units are being shipped from Philadelphia?

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total cost of the shipping plan is:

Use this problem for the next four (4)questions. A company has manufacturing plants in Las Vegas,Portland,and Seattle.Items produced from these plants are boxed and shipped to warehouses in Minneapolis and Chicago where they are tested and repackaged for distribution to final customers in New York,Miami,and Charlotte.The network of transshipment routes shown below indicates the cost associated with shipping a box from the plants to the warehouses and then the cost of shipping the repackaged unit from the warehouses to the final customers. Assume that the supply and demand requirements are as shown in the table below. The company would like to determine the lowest cost shipping and distribution plan. The following solution was produced using Microsoft Excel. -How many units are shipped through the Minneapolis transshipment point?

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: How many units of Albany demand are supplied from Nashville?

One way to incorporate a prohibited route in a transportation problem is to

The transshipment model is an extension of the transportation model in which intermediate transshipment points are added between the sources and destinations.

What is the overall cost of the transshipment plan shown above?