The North – West Corner Rule for obtaining an initial basic feasible solution to a transportation... more The North – West Corner Rule for obtaining an initial basic feasible solution to a transportation problem disregards costs. This disregard necessarily leads to a high number of iterations to optimality. A search for a way to incorporate costs in the use of the North-West Corner Rule led to experimenting with the creation of a north-west south-east low cost broad band orientation in the transportation cost matrix. The transformed table was tested by applying the North-West Corner Rule on it. The findings were very encouraging though not conclusive because of the small sample size. Practitioners may want to adopt this innovation to confirm its effectiveness.
The North – West Corner Rule for obtaining an initial basic feasible solution to a transportation... more The North – West Corner Rule for obtaining an initial basic feasible solution to a transportation problem disregards costs. This disregard necessarily leads to a high number of iterations to optimality. A search for a way to incorporate costs in the use of the North-West Corner Rule led to experimenting with the creation of a north-west south-east low cost broad band orientation in the transportation cost matrix. The transformed table was tested by applying the North-West Corner Rule on it. The findings were very encouraging though not conclusive because of the small sample size. Practitioners may want to adopt this innovation to confirm its effectiveness.
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