Transportation Cost Optimization Using Linear Programming
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Optimization means using resources and existing technology at the best possible way. Better planning and its execution results in optimization of many problems. Quantitative models and mathematical tools such as linear programming allows for better result. We can use modern computing equipment for this purpose. Nowadays various problems of operational planning for transportation problems are solved by mathematical methods. Linear programming method is used to model most of these transportation problems. In this paper a real world application of a transportation problem that involves transporting mosquito coil from company’s warehouse to distributor’s warehouse is modeled using linear programming in order to find the optimal transportation cost. Excel Solver has been used to model and solve this problem.
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