Managing Supply Chain and Operations 1st Edition by Thomas Foster ,Scott Sampson,Cynthia Wallin,Scott Webb

Exercise 28

A company holds inventory at warehouses in Amarillo, St. Louis, Knoxville, and Camden. Items are shipped from the warehouses to retail outlets in Louisville, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The weekly demand at the retail outlets is as follows: Each warehouse can process (ship) the following quanti-ties each week: The per-unit shipping costs to ship from the warehouses to the retail outlets are given in the following cost matrix: Determine the shipping plan that satisfies the weekly demand requirements at the retail outlets for the minimum total shipping cost.