Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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ISBN: 9781478623069
Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 6.5, Problem 15P
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Interpretation: Find the optimal shipping pattern and quantity of the total decrease in demand of 2,000 units is absorbed at each factory at the optimal solution.
Concept Introduction: One of the feasible solution is optimal solution. When the objective function attaining its maximum or minimum value.i.e) the more profit or low cost. Generally, the optimal solution is that none of the feasible solution for the objective functions.
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Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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