METHOD FOR FINDING THE OPTIMAL PLAN OF THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM
Keywords:
Keywords: transportation problem, logistics, linear programming, objective function, minimum cost method, potentials method, optimal plan, supply chain.Abstract
Abstract: This scientific article studies one of the main problems in the logistics of enterprises - the issue of transportation, which ensures the lowest cost of transporting products from suppliers to consumers. The relevance of the study is that in the modern economy, a significant part of the cost of the product is made up of logistics costs, and their intuitive distribution leads to significant financial losses for the enterprise. To solve the problem, a closed transport model of linear programming, the methods of "Minimum Costs" and "Potentials" were used. In the practical part, a matrix of transportation between a conditional manufacturing enterprise and its regional warehouses was constructed, and the optimal plan was mathematically calculated. The results obtained proved that through mathematical modeling it is possible to reduce the logistics costs of the enterprise by at least 15-20 percent.
