Question: Johnson Electric produces small electric motors for four appliance manufacturers in each of its three plants. The monthly capacities (supplies) are shown below:

PLANT MONTHLY PRODUCTION CAPACITY

A 800

B 600

C 700

The customer orders that must be produced next month are shown below:

CUSTOMER DEMAND

1 300

2 500

3 400

4 600

The cost of supplying these customers varies from plant to plant. The unit transportation

costs in dollars are given below:

FROM TO 1 TO 2 TO 3 TO 4

A 20 19 22 24

B 26 24 28 23

C 33 25 29 28

Johnson must decide how much of each customer’s demand to supply from each plant. It wishes to minimize total transportation costs. Formulate Johnson’s problem as a LP transportation problem. Please make sure that you state decision variables clearly.

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