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Transportation, Transshipment, and Assignment Problems


Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
  1. Describe the nature of transportation transshipment and assignment problems.
  2. Formulate a transportation problem as a linear programming model.
  3. Use the transportation method to solve problems with Excel.
  4. Solve maximization transportation problems, unbalanced problems, and problems with prohibited routes.
  5. Solve aggregate planning problems using the transportation model.
  6. Formulate a transshipment problem as a linear programming model.
  7. Solve transshipment problems with Excel.
  8. Formulate an assignment problem as a linear programming model.
  9. Use the assignment method to solve problems with Excel.










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