After completing this module, students will be able to:
In Chapter 9, several important distribution and network models were presented. Linear programming was used extensively in the presentation of these models. However, there are some specialized algorithms that can be used to find the best solutions more quickly and are often used instead of linear programming. In this module, we will present these specialized techniques for solving the transportation problem, the assignment problem, the maximal-flow problem, and the shortest-route problem.