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Across
- 2. Building : Creating a simplified representation to analyse a business problem
- 7. Node : Origin point in a distribution network that provides goods
- 9. : Simple technique to compute a starting transportation plan
- 11. : Cost incurred to move one unit of product between two points
- 12. Node : Destination point that requires certain quantities of goods
- 13. Matrix : Table showing transportation cost between every source and destination
- 14. Allocation : Assigning limited resources to competing uses
- 18. Check : Verifying whether a plan satisfies all constraints
- 21. Flow : Movement of goods or data through interconnected nodes and links
- 22. : Assignment of units from sources to destinations
- 24. : Routing goods via intermediate stops between source and destination
- 25. : Technique to evaluate possible improvements in transport plans
- 26. : The primary goal (e.g., minimize total transportation cost)
- 27. : Added cost used to balance supply and demand artificially
- 28. : Method to compute opportunity cost corrections (short name)
- 29. Problem : When supply and demand totals do not match initially
- 30. : Extra cost of transporting one additional unit
Down
- 1. : Condition where the number of allocations is less than required
- 3. Optimal Plan : The allocation after all improvements have been applied
- 4. Problem : When total supply equals total demand in a transportation model
- 5. : Planning the path vehicles take to deliver goods
- 6. : Starting solution that picks cheapest available routes first
- 8. Solution : The starting allocation used before optimization begins
- 10. : Maximum amount a facility or route can handle
- 15. : Goods transported by road, rail, sea, or air
- 16. Improvement : Repeating steps to progressively better solutions
- 17. Model : Mathematical model where relationships are linear functions
- 19. Solution : Solution requiring whole-number allocations only
- 20. : Combining shipments to reduce overall transport cost
- 23. : A practical rule-of-thumb used when exact methods are impractical