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Parisay's Comments Are in Red.: Explain The Difference Between

A) The assignment problem is a type of transportation problem where all capacities in rows and columns are equal to 1. The values in the assignment problem table represent time rather than transportation costs. B) The transshipment problem is a special case of the transportation problem where some points act as intermediate shipping locations, rather than solely as suppliers or demanders. Goods are shipped from suppliers to transshipment points and then from transshipment points to demanders. Transshipment points can also act as suppliers with their own capacities.

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Parisay's Comments Are in Red.: Explain The Difference Between

A) The assignment problem is a type of transportation problem where all capacities in rows and columns are equal to 1. The values in the assignment problem table represent time rather than transportation costs. B) The transshipment problem is a special case of the transportation problem where some points act as intermediate shipping locations, rather than solely as suppliers or demanders. Goods are shipped from suppliers to transshipment points and then from transshipment points to demanders. Transshipment points can also act as suppliers with their own capacities.

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By: Ms.

Parvaneh Ahmadi

Parisay’s comments are in red.

Explain the difference between:

A) Assignment problem and transportation problem:

Assignment problem is actually like the child of transportation but the difference is that
in assignment problem all the capacities in each column or row (like supplies row and
Demand column) is 1. All si=1 and dj=1 therefore xij=0 or 1.
In the tables for transportation in those small boxes most of the time we have cost of
transportation but in assignment problem those boxes most of the time indicates the time;
however, it can be cost or distance or etc,.

B) Transshipment problem and transportation problem:

Transshipment problem is a special transportation problem in which, some points are not
a simple supply point or a simple demand point, but several units will be shipped in them
and from them. Transshipment is like the child of the transportation but in transshipment
we have some areas (like warehouses) which the goods from supply points were shipped
to these points which are in the middle of the demand and supply points and then they
were shipped from these points to the demand points. Sometimes the transshipment
points are also supply points in this case we should put their capacity as supplies which is
the rows in the table.

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