A soft drink manufacturing company has 3 factories—one in Orlando, one in Tampa ...
guru2009A soft drink manufacturing company has 3 factories—one in Orlando, one in Tampa, and one in Port St. Lucie—which supply soft drink bottles to 3 warehouses located in the city of Miami. The associated per-unit transportation cost between the factories and the warehouses is provided in the table below. Transportation Costs of Factories ($) Factories/Warehouses W1 W2 W3 Orlando 7 4 5 Tampa 7 6 4 Port St. Lucie 5 5 6 The factory in Orlando has a capacity of 14,000 units. The factory in Tampa has a capacity of 25,000 units. The factory in Port St. Lucie has a capacity of 23,000 units. The requirements of the warehouses are: Warehouse Requirement (Bottles) W1 18,000 W2 19,000 W3 22,000 Determine how much of the company’s production should be shipped from each factory to each warehouse in order to minimize the total transportation cost?
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