Author(s)

Md. Munir Hossain¹, Mollah Mesbahuddin Ahmed², Md. Amirul Islam¹, Shirajul Islam Ukil¹

¹Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh Military Academy, Chattogram, Bangladesh.
²Principal, Birshreshtha Noor Mohammad Public College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Transportation of products from sources to destinations with minimal total cost plays an important role in logistics and supply chain management. In this article, a new and effective algorithm is introduced for finding an initial basic feasible solution of a balanced transportation problem. Number of numerical illustration is introduced and optimality of the result is also checked. Comparison of findings obtained by the new heuristic and the existing heuristics show that the method presented herein gives a better result.

Initial Basic Feasible Solution, Total Opportunity Cost Matrix, Pointer Cost, Optimum Solution

Hossain, M. , Ahmed, M. , Islam, M. and Ukil, S. (2020) An Effective Approach to Determine an Initial Basic Feasible Solution: A TOCM-MEDM Approach. Open Journal of Optimization, 9, 27-37. doi: 10.4236/ojop.2020.92003.