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Transportation problems are concerned with the distribution of products from various origins to different destinations with the primary objective of achieving minimum cost. In this paper, a real-world application of transportation problem has been discussed using C programming involving transportation of paraffin wax. A new model had been proposed in this work which achieved the minimum total transportation cost compared to the existing approaches by successively reducing the complexities in the iterations to get the final cost. To support the effectiveness of the proposed approach it was justified with the help of solver in excel and compared with other models in terms of total cost and time complexity.
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Hazarika, P., Kalita, C.S. (2020). Minimization of Transportation Cost of Paraffin Wax: A Proposed Approach Using C. In: Biswal, B., Sarkar, B., Mahanta, P. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0124-1_39
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