Indian Journal of Science and Technology

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In this paper a different approach OFSTF (Origin, First, Second, Third, and Fourth quadrants) Method is applied for finding a feasible solution for transportation problems directly. The proposed method is a unique, it gives always feasible (may be optimal for some extant) solution without disturbance of degeneracy condition. This method takes least iterations to reach optimality. A numerical example is solved to check the validity of the proposed method and degeneracy problem is also discussed.

Keywords

Assignment Problem, Degeneracy, Pay Off Matrix (POM), Quadrants, Transportation Problem.
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