Optimization Techniques for Transportation Problems of Three Variables

Abstract

Transportation problem is considered a vitally important aspect that has been studied in a wide range of operations including research domains. As such, it has been used in simulation of several real life problems. Thus, optimizing transportation problem of variables has remarkably been significant to various disciplines. In this paper, three variables will be optimized to reduce transportation cost using four methods which will include: Northwest corner method, least cost method, Vogel method and modi method. This will mainly aim at finding the best and cheapest route on how supply will be used to satisfy demand at specific points. This will imply that, a variable cost of shipping products from suppliers to demand points will be considered.