- 1 A First Tier Supplier Ships Oem Parts From Its Four Manufacturing Plants To Four Producer Plants Of Assembled Systems 1 (24.69 KiB) Viewed 51 times
1. A first-tier supplier ships OEM parts from its four manufacturing plants to four producer plants of assembled systems at four different locations. The cost per shipment from each supplier plant to each producer plant is given in the table. Supplier plants 1, 2, 3, and 4 make 10, 20, 20, and 10 shipments per month. Producer plants 1.2.3, and 4 need to receive 20, 10, 10, and 20 shipments per month, respectively. a) Formulate the problem as a transportation problem by constructing the transportation tableau. b) Use each of the Northwest Corner Rule, Least Cost Rule, Vogel's Approximation Method, and Russel Approximation Method to obtain initial solutions for the problem. 1 2 3 4 1 700 800 900 500 100 200 400 2. 200 3 400 500 300 100 4 200 100 400 300