The Factored Transportation Problem

James R. Evans
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James R. Evans: College of Business Administration, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221

Management Science, 1984, vol. 30, issue 8, 1021-1024

Abstract: The factored transportation problem is one having cost coefficients of the form c ij = u i v j . The main result proven in this paper is that if rows are arranged according to nonincreasing u i and columns by nondecreasing v j , then the northwest corner rule provides an optimal solution. Applications to stock location in a warehouse and information storage and retrieval policies are presented. For the stock location problem, this verifies that a previously advocated heuristic is optimal.

Keywords: transportation problem; northwest corner rule; warehouse stock location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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