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By Jay Heizer Barry Render Operations Management, Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (11th) [Paperback]
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Author: Jay Heizer
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Chapter C, Problem 6P
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To determine: The total cost of the given transportation problem.
Introduction: The major objective of the transportation problem is to minimize the distributing cost of a product from a source to an origin. Transportation problem is one of the type of linear programming.
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