A Comparative Study Between the Methods of Finding an Initial Solution to the Transportation Problem

Abstract

One of the problems of operations research is the transportation problem (TP), which is limited to scheduling the transportation of goods from sources to sites at the lowest possible cost, and it can be solved by traditional methods, which Including North West technique, Least Cost technique, and Vogel's Approximation technique. Several methods have been proposed in recent years to locate Transportation Problems that are less costly, in our research we compared Vogel's Approximation Method (VAM), Direct Sum Method (DSM) and Ramakrishnan's proposed method. If the results show the effectiveness of the suggested Method by Ramakrishnan with the methods used in comparison