An application of the transportation method of linear programming to a production planning problem of a large footwear manufacturer is described. Factors affecting the choice of approach are discussed ...

1. Describe the nature of a transportation problem. The transportation problem involves finding the lowest-cost plan for distributing stocks of goods or supplies from multiple origins to multiple ...

This paper describes the development of a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the standard N-job, M-machine flowshop sequencing problem. Based on an earlier all-integer model developed ...