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C Transportation Models
PowerPoint presentation to accompany
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Heizer and Render
Heizer and Render
Operations Management, 10e
Operations Management, 10e
Principles of Operations Management, 8e
Principles of Operations Management, 8e
PowerPoint slides by Jeff Heyl
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Outline
Outline
 Transportation Modeling
 Developing an Initial Solution
 The Northwest-Corner Rule
 The Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
 The Stepping-Stone Method
 Special Issues in Modeling
 Demand Not Equal to Supply
 Degeneracy
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Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
When you complete this module you
When you complete this module you
should be able to:
should be able to:
1. Develop an initial solution to a
transportation models with the
northwest-corner and intuitive
lowest-cost methods
2. Solve a problem with the stepping-
stone method
3. Balance a transportation problem
4. Solve a problem with degeneracy
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Transportation Modeling
Transportation Modeling
 An interactive procedure that finds
the least costly means of moving
products from a series of sources
to a series of destinations
 Can be used to
help resolve
distribution
and location
decisions
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Transportation Modeling
Transportation Modeling
 A special class of linear
programming
 Need to know
1. The origin points and the capacity
or supply per period at each
2. The destination points and the
demand per period at each
3. The cost of shipping one unit from
each origin to each destination
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Transportation Problem
Transportation Problem
To
From
Albuquerque Boston Cleveland
Des Moines $5 $4 $3
Evansville $8 $4 $3
Fort Lauderdale $9 $7 $5
Table C.1
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Transportation Problem
Transportation Problem
Fort Lauderdale
(300 units
capacity)
Albuquerque
(300 units
required)
Des Moines
(100 units
capacity)
Evansville
(300 units
capacity)
Cleveland
(200 units
required)
Boston
(200 units
required)
Figure C.1
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Transportation Matrix
Transportation Matrix
From
To
Albuquerque Boston Cleveland
Des Moines
Evansville
Fort Lauderdale
Factory
capacity
Warehouse
requirement
300
300
300 200 200
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
Cost of shipping 1 unit from Fort
Lauderdale factory to Boston warehouse
Des Moines
capacity
constraint
Cell
representing
a possible
source-to-
destination
shipping
assignment
(Evansville
to Cleveland)
Total demand
and total supply
Cleveland
warehouse demand
Figure C.2
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Northwest-Corner Rule
Northwest-Corner Rule
 Start in the upper left-hand cell (or
northwest corner) of the table and allocate
units to shipping routes as follows:
1. Exhaust the supply (factory capacity) of each
row before moving down to the next row
2. Exhaust the (warehouse) requirements of
each column before moving to the next
column
3. Check to ensure that all supplies and
demands are met
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Northwest-Corner Rule
Northwest-Corner Rule
1. Assign 100 tubs from Des Moines to Albuquerque
(exhausting Des Moines’s supply)
2. Assign 200 tubs from Evansville to Albuquerque
(exhausting Albuquerque’s demand)
3. Assign 100 tubs from Evansville to Boston
(exhausting Evansville’s supply)
4. Assign 100 tubs from Fort Lauderdale to Boston
(exhausting Boston’s demand)
5. Assign 200 tubs from Fort Lauderdale to
Cleveland (exhausting Cleveland’s demand and
Fort Lauderdale’s supply)
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To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
Northwest-Corner Rule
Northwest-Corner Rule
100
100
100
200
200
Figure C.3
Means that the firm is shipping 100
bathtubs from Fort Lauderdale to Boston
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Northwest-Corner Rule
Northwest-Corner Rule
Computed Shipping Cost
Table C.2
This is a feasible solution
but not necessarily the
lowest cost alternative
Route
From To Tubs Shipped Cost per Unit Total Cost
D A 100 $5 $ 500
E A 200 8 1,600
E B 100 4 400
F B 100 7 700
F C 200 5 $1,000
Total: $4,200
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
1. Identify the cell with the lowest cost
2. Allocate as many units as possible to
that cell without exceeding supply or
demand; then cross out the row or
column (or both) that is exhausted by
this assignment
3. Find the cell with the lowest cost from
the remaining cells
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all units
have been allocated
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
First, $3 is the lowest cost cell so ship 100 units from
Des Moines to Cleveland and cross off the first row as
Des Moines is satisfied
Figure C.4
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
Second, $3 is again the lowest cost cell so ship 100 units
from Evansville to Cleveland and cross off column C as
Cleveland is satisfied
Figure C.4
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
200
Third, $4 is the lowest cost cell so ship 200 units from
Evansville to Boston and cross off column B and row E
as Evansville and Boston are satisfied
Figure C.4
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
200
300
Finally, ship 300 units from Albuquerque to Fort
Lauderdale as this is the only remaining cell to complete
the allocations
Figure C.4
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
200
300
Total Cost = $3(100) + $3(100) + $4(200) + $9(300)
= $4,100
Figure C.4
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Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
200
300
Total Cost = $3(100) + $3(100) + $4(200) + $9(300)
= $4,100
Figure C.4
This is a feasible solution,
and an improvement over
the previous solution, but
not necessarily the lowest
cost alternative
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
1. Select any unused square to evaluate
2. Beginning at this square, trace a
closed path back to the original square
via squares that are currently being
used
3. Beginning with a plus (+) sign at the
unused corner, place alternate minus
and plus signs at each corner of the
path just traced
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
4. Calculate an improvement index by
first adding the unit-cost figures found
in each square containing a plus sign
and subtracting the unit costs in each
square containing a minus sign
5. Repeat steps 1 though 4 until you have
calculated an improvement index for
all unused squares. If all indices are ≥
0, you have reached an optimal
solution.
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$5
$8 $4
$4
+ -
+
-
Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
100
200
200
+
-
-
+
1
100
201 99
99
100
200
Figure C.5
Des Moines-
Boston index
= $4 - $5 + $8 - $4
= +$3
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
100
200
200
Figure C.6
Start
+
-
+
-
+
-
Des Moines-Cleveland index
= $3 - $5 + $8 - $4 + $7 - $5 = +$4
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
100
200
200
Evansville-Cleveland index
= $3 - $4 + $7 - $5 = +$1
(Closed path = EC - EB + FB - FC)
Fort Lauderdale-Albuquerque index
= $9 - $7 + $4 - $8 = -$1
(Closed path = FA - FB + EB - EA)
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
1. If an improvement is possible, choose
the route (unused square) with the
largest negative improvement index
2. On the closed path for that route,
select the smallest number found in
the squares containing minus signs
3. Add this number to all squares on the
closed path with plus signs and
subtract it from all squares with a
minus sign
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
100
100
200
200
Figure C.7
+
+
-
-
1. Add 100 units on route FA
2. Subtract 100 from routes FB
3. Add 100 to route EB
4. Subtract 100 from route EA
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Stepping-Stone Method
Stepping-Stone Method
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
100
700
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
100
200
100
100
200
Figure C.8
Total Cost = $5(100) + $8(100) + $4(200) + $9(100) + $5(200)
= $4,000
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Special Issues in Modeling
Special Issues in Modeling
 Demand not equal to supply
 Called an unbalanced problem
 Common situation in the real world
 Resolved by introducing dummy
sources or dummy destinations as
necessary with cost coefficients of
zero
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Special Issues in Modeling
Special Issues in Modeling
Figure C.9
New
Des Moines
capacity
To (A)
Albuquerque
(B)
Boston
(C)
Cleveland
(D) Des Moines
(E) Evansville
(F) Fort Lauderdale
Warehouse
requirement 300 200 200
Factory
capacity
300
300
250
850
$5
$5
$4
$4
$3
$3
$9
$8
$7
From
50
200
250
50
150
Dummy
150
0
0
0
150
Total Cost = 250($5) + 50($8) + 200($4) + 50($3) + 150($5) + 150(0)
= $3,350
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Special Issues in Modeling
Special Issues in Modeling
 Degeneracy
 To use the stepping-stone
methodology, the number of
occupied squares in any solution
must be equal to the number of
rows in the table plus the number
of columns minus 1
 If a solution does not satisfy this
rule it is called degenerate
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To Customer
1
Customer
2
Customer
3
Warehouse 1
Warehouse 2
Warehouse 3
Customer
demand 100 100 100
Warehouse
supply
120
80
100
300
$8
$7
$2
$9
$6
$9
$7
$10
$10
From
Special Issues in Modeling
Special Issues in Modeling
0 100
100
80
20
Figure C.10
Initial solution is degenerate
Place a zero quantity in an unused square
and proceed computing improvement indices
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heizer operation management 10 mod C.ppt

  • 1. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 1 C Transportation Models PowerPoint presentation to accompany PowerPoint presentation to accompany Heizer and Render Heizer and Render Operations Management, 10e Operations Management, 10e Principles of Operations Management, 8e Principles of Operations Management, 8e PowerPoint slides by Jeff Heyl
  • 2. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 2 Outline Outline  Transportation Modeling  Developing an Initial Solution  The Northwest-Corner Rule  The Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method  The Stepping-Stone Method  Special Issues in Modeling  Demand Not Equal to Supply  Degeneracy
  • 3. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 3 Learning Objectives Learning Objectives When you complete this module you When you complete this module you should be able to: should be able to: 1. Develop an initial solution to a transportation models with the northwest-corner and intuitive lowest-cost methods 2. Solve a problem with the stepping- stone method 3. Balance a transportation problem 4. Solve a problem with degeneracy
  • 4. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 4 Transportation Modeling Transportation Modeling  An interactive procedure that finds the least costly means of moving products from a series of sources to a series of destinations  Can be used to help resolve distribution and location decisions
  • 5. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 5 Transportation Modeling Transportation Modeling  A special class of linear programming  Need to know 1. The origin points and the capacity or supply per period at each 2. The destination points and the demand per period at each 3. The cost of shipping one unit from each origin to each destination
  • 6. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 6 Transportation Problem Transportation Problem To From Albuquerque Boston Cleveland Des Moines $5 $4 $3 Evansville $8 $4 $3 Fort Lauderdale $9 $7 $5 Table C.1
  • 7. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 7 Transportation Problem Transportation Problem Fort Lauderdale (300 units capacity) Albuquerque (300 units required) Des Moines (100 units capacity) Evansville (300 units capacity) Cleveland (200 units required) Boston (200 units required) Figure C.1
  • 8. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 8 Transportation Matrix Transportation Matrix From To Albuquerque Boston Cleveland Des Moines Evansville Fort Lauderdale Factory capacity Warehouse requirement 300 300 300 200 200 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 Cost of shipping 1 unit from Fort Lauderdale factory to Boston warehouse Des Moines capacity constraint Cell representing a possible source-to- destination shipping assignment (Evansville to Cleveland) Total demand and total supply Cleveland warehouse demand Figure C.2
  • 9. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 9 Northwest-Corner Rule Northwest-Corner Rule  Start in the upper left-hand cell (or northwest corner) of the table and allocate units to shipping routes as follows: 1. Exhaust the supply (factory capacity) of each row before moving down to the next row 2. Exhaust the (warehouse) requirements of each column before moving to the next column 3. Check to ensure that all supplies and demands are met
  • 10. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 10 Northwest-Corner Rule Northwest-Corner Rule 1. Assign 100 tubs from Des Moines to Albuquerque (exhausting Des Moines’s supply) 2. Assign 200 tubs from Evansville to Albuquerque (exhausting Albuquerque’s demand) 3. Assign 100 tubs from Evansville to Boston (exhausting Evansville’s supply) 4. Assign 100 tubs from Fort Lauderdale to Boston (exhausting Boston’s demand) 5. Assign 200 tubs from Fort Lauderdale to Cleveland (exhausting Cleveland’s demand and Fort Lauderdale’s supply)
  • 11. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 11 To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From Northwest-Corner Rule Northwest-Corner Rule 100 100 100 200 200 Figure C.3 Means that the firm is shipping 100 bathtubs from Fort Lauderdale to Boston
  • 12. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 12 Northwest-Corner Rule Northwest-Corner Rule Computed Shipping Cost Table C.2 This is a feasible solution but not necessarily the lowest cost alternative Route From To Tubs Shipped Cost per Unit Total Cost D A 100 $5 $ 500 E A 200 8 1,600 E B 100 4 400 F B 100 7 700 F C 200 5 $1,000 Total: $4,200
  • 13. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 13 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method 1. Identify the cell with the lowest cost 2. Allocate as many units as possible to that cell without exceeding supply or demand; then cross out the row or column (or both) that is exhausted by this assignment 3. Find the cell with the lowest cost from the remaining cells 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all units have been allocated
  • 14. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 14 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 First, $3 is the lowest cost cell so ship 100 units from Des Moines to Cleveland and cross off the first row as Des Moines is satisfied Figure C.4
  • 15. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 15 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 Second, $3 is again the lowest cost cell so ship 100 units from Evansville to Cleveland and cross off column C as Cleveland is satisfied Figure C.4
  • 16. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 16 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 200 Third, $4 is the lowest cost cell so ship 200 units from Evansville to Boston and cross off column B and row E as Evansville and Boston are satisfied Figure C.4
  • 17. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 17 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 200 300 Finally, ship 300 units from Albuquerque to Fort Lauderdale as this is the only remaining cell to complete the allocations Figure C.4
  • 18. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 18 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 200 300 Total Cost = $3(100) + $3(100) + $4(200) + $9(300) = $4,100 Figure C.4
  • 19. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 19 Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 200 300 Total Cost = $3(100) + $3(100) + $4(200) + $9(300) = $4,100 Figure C.4 This is a feasible solution, and an improvement over the previous solution, but not necessarily the lowest cost alternative
  • 20. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 20 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method 1. Select any unused square to evaluate 2. Beginning at this square, trace a closed path back to the original square via squares that are currently being used 3. Beginning with a plus (+) sign at the unused corner, place alternate minus and plus signs at each corner of the path just traced
  • 21. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 21 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method 4. Calculate an improvement index by first adding the unit-cost figures found in each square containing a plus sign and subtracting the unit costs in each square containing a minus sign 5. Repeat steps 1 though 4 until you have calculated an improvement index for all unused squares. If all indices are ≥ 0, you have reached an optimal solution.
  • 22. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 22 $5 $8 $4 $4 + - + - Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 100 200 200 + - - + 1 100 201 99 99 100 200 Figure C.5 Des Moines- Boston index = $4 - $5 + $8 - $4 = +$3
  • 23. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 23 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 100 200 200 Figure C.6 Start + - + - + - Des Moines-Cleveland index = $3 - $5 + $8 - $4 + $7 - $5 = +$4
  • 24. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 24 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 100 200 200 Evansville-Cleveland index = $3 - $4 + $7 - $5 = +$1 (Closed path = EC - EB + FB - FC) Fort Lauderdale-Albuquerque index = $9 - $7 + $4 - $8 = -$1 (Closed path = FA - FB + EB - EA)
  • 25. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 25 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method 1. If an improvement is possible, choose the route (unused square) with the largest negative improvement index 2. On the closed path for that route, select the smallest number found in the squares containing minus signs 3. Add this number to all squares on the closed path with plus signs and subtract it from all squares with a minus sign
  • 26. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 26 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 100 100 200 200 Figure C.7 + + - - 1. Add 100 units on route FA 2. Subtract 100 from routes FB 3. Add 100 to route EB 4. Subtract 100 from route EA
  • 27. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 27 Stepping-Stone Method Stepping-Stone Method To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 100 700 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 100 200 100 100 200 Figure C.8 Total Cost = $5(100) + $8(100) + $4(200) + $9(100) + $5(200) = $4,000
  • 28. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 28 Special Issues in Modeling Special Issues in Modeling  Demand not equal to supply  Called an unbalanced problem  Common situation in the real world  Resolved by introducing dummy sources or dummy destinations as necessary with cost coefficients of zero
  • 29. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 29 Special Issues in Modeling Special Issues in Modeling Figure C.9 New Des Moines capacity To (A) Albuquerque (B) Boston (C) Cleveland (D) Des Moines (E) Evansville (F) Fort Lauderdale Warehouse requirement 300 200 200 Factory capacity 300 300 250 850 $5 $5 $4 $4 $3 $3 $9 $8 $7 From 50 200 250 50 150 Dummy 150 0 0 0 150 Total Cost = 250($5) + 50($8) + 200($4) + 50($3) + 150($5) + 150(0) = $3,350
  • 30. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 30 Special Issues in Modeling Special Issues in Modeling  Degeneracy  To use the stepping-stone methodology, the number of occupied squares in any solution must be equal to the number of rows in the table plus the number of columns minus 1  If a solution does not satisfy this rule it is called degenerate
  • 31. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 31 To Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Warehouse 1 Warehouse 2 Warehouse 3 Customer demand 100 100 100 Warehouse supply 120 80 100 300 $8 $7 $2 $9 $6 $9 $7 $10 $10 From Special Issues in Modeling Special Issues in Modeling 0 100 100 80 20 Figure C.10 Initial solution is degenerate Place a zero quantity in an unused square and proceed computing improvement indices
  • 32. © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall C - 32 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America.

Editor's Notes

  • #4: This slide provides some reasons that capacity is an issue. The following slides guide a discussion of capacity.
  • #5: This slide provides some reasons that capacity is an issue. The following slides guide a discussion of capacity.
  • #6: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #7: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #8: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #9: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #10: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #11: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #12: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #13: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #14: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #15: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #16: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #17: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #18: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #19: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #20: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #21: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #22: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #23: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #24: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #25: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #26: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #27: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #28: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #29: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #30: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.
  • #31: This slide can be used to frame a discussion of capacity. Points to be made might include: - capacity definition and measurement is necessary if we are to develop a production schedule - while a process may have “maximum” capacity, many factors prevent us from achieving that capacity on a continuous basis. Students should be asked to suggest factors which might prevent one from achieving maximum capacity.