Exercise 7

Computation of Shipping Cost

A company supplies its products to four cities from five warehouses. The shipping plan is
given below. The per unit shipping cost per unit distance is Rs.5.00. The distance
between five warehouse and the four cities are also given. With this data compute the
cost of shipping the various qualities given above between the warehouses and the
cities.

Distances
Cities
1 2 3 4
1 12 10 15 20
Warehouse

2 10 16 17 25
3 5 30 22 28
4 18 22 17 16
5 27 17 16 20

Distances
Cities
ALB BHV MUM NAG
AHD 12 10 15 20
Warehouse

BLR 10 16 17 25
CAL 5 30 22 28
DEL 18 22 17 16
HYD 27 17 16 20

Shipping Plan
WH W.H.No. City City No. Quantity Cost
Name Name
BLR MUM 100
BLR NAG 200
AHD MUM 150
AHD BHV 75
DEL BHV 35
HYD ALB 40