Normally, the Transportation Model Is Used to Solve Problems Involving

question 119

Essay

Normally, the transportation model is used to solve problems involving several physical sources of product and several physical uses of the product, as in factories and warehouses. How is it possible to use the transportation model where the "routes" are from one time period to another? Describe how this provides aggregate planners with a usable mathematical model.

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