Question 1

If a route is prohibited,units can be transported from a particular source to a particular destination.

Accepted Answer

If a route is prohibited, it means that the units cannot be transported through that route, regardless of the source and destination.

Question 2

Use this problem for the next four (4)questions.
A company has manufacturing plants in Las Vegas,Portland,and Seattle.Items produced from these plants are boxed and shipped to warehouses in Minneapolis and Chicago where they are tested and repackaged for distribution to final customers in New York,Miami,and Charlotte.The network of transshipment routes shown below indicates the cost associated with shipping a box from the plants to the warehouses and then the cost of shipping the repackaged unit from the warehouses to the final customers.
  Assume that the supply and demand requirements are as shown in the table below.
  The company would like to determine the lowest cost shipping and distribution plan.
The following solution was produced using Microsoft Excel.
 
-How many units are shipped through the Minneapolis transshipment point?
A)500
B)1500
C)2500
D)3500

Accepted Answer

The best choice is to ship 1000 units from Portland to Minneapolis, 1000 units from Seattle to Minneapolis, and 2500 units from Minneapolis to New York, Miami, and Charlotte. This results in a total cost of $88,500, which is the lowest cost option.

Question 3

In a transportation model the total supply and total demand must be equal.

Accepted Answer

In a transportation model, the total supply and total demand do not have to be equal. If they are not equal, dummy supply or demand nodes can be added to balance the model.

Question 4

Each cell in a transportation table represents the amount transported from one source to all destinations.

Accepted Answer

Each cell in a transportation table represents the amount transported from one specific source to one specific destination, not all destinations.

Question 5

The stepping-stone method is a quantitative technique that can be used to solve transportation models quantitatively.

Accepted Answer

The stepping-stone method is used for finding an optimal solution in transportation problems. It is a quantitative technique that involves moving units of shipment from one cell to another in order to improve the total cost of transportation.

Question 6

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 The total cost of the shipping plan is:
A)$15,000
B)$18,500
C)$35,500
D)$43,500

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 7

In a transportation model each source is able to supply a fixed number of units of the product and each destination has a fixed demand for the product.

Accepted Answer

This statement accurately describes a transportation model, where sources and destinations have fixed quantities of supply and demand for a product.

Question 8

Having more than one shipping distribution but with the same total cost is known as:
A)a prohibited solution
B)an unequal solution
C)an alternative optimal solution
D)a transshipment solution

Accepted Answer

An alternative optimal solution is when there are multiple solutions that have the same optimal value. In this case, having multiple shipping distributions with the same total cost indicates that there are alternative optimal solutions.

Question 9

Two quantitative techniques that are used for determining the least cost means of transporting goods and services are the transportation method and the queuing method.

Accepted Answer

The transportation method is a commonly used quantitative technique for determining the least cost means of transporting goods and services, but the queuing method is not typically used for this purpose. The queuing method is used for analyzing queuing systems and optimizing the flow of customers or products through a system.

Question 10

Transportation models can be solved within the context of a transportation table.

Accepted Answer

Transportation models involve the use of a transportation table which lists the supply and demand for each source and destination, as well as the transportation costs. The transportation table provides the framework for solving the transportation problem using methods such as the North-West Corner Rule, Least Cost Method, and Vogel's Approximation Method.

Question 11

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 The total amount shipped from Portland to Dallas is:
A)4,500
B)1,000
C)4,000
D)1,500

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 12

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 How many units of Albany demand are supplied from Nashville?
A)4,500
B)4,000
C)1,500
D)1,000

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 13

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 How many units of New York demand are supplied from Omaha?
A)5
B)10
C)1,500
D)6,000

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 14

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 The total cost of the shipping plan is:
A)$17,000
B)$25,000
C)$50,000
D)$66,000

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 15

In an unbalanced transportation problem supply and demand are not equal.

Accepted Answer

In an unbalanced transportation problem, the supply and demand are not equal, meaning either there is a shortage of supply or excess supply compared to the demand.

Question 16

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements:  The optimal solution is:
 The total amount shipped from Boise to Los Angeles is:
A)3
B)6
C)3,000
D)5,000

Accepted Answer

The answer of The following transportation table shows the cost...

Question 17

The transshipment model is an extension of the transportation model in which intermediate transshipment points are added between the sources and destinations.

Accepted Answer

The statement is true, as the transshipment model involves adding additional intermediate points for the transfer of goods between the sources and destinations.

Question 18

One way to incorporate a prohibited route in a transportation problem is to
A)assign a low cost,relative to the other route shipping costs,to the prohibited route
B)assign a high cost,relative to the other route shipping costs,to the prohibited route
C)assign a zero cost to the prohibited route
D)transportation problems with prohibited routes cannot be modeled

Accepted Answer

Assigning a high cost to the prohibited route ensures that it will not be selected as an option in the solution to the transportation problem. By making it more expensive than the other routes, the algorithm will choose alternative routes that do not have the constraint of being prohibited.

Question 19

An important factor in supply chain management is determining the lowest-cost transportation provider from among several alternatives.

Accepted Answer

Choosing the lowest-cost transportation provider is an important aspect of supply chain management, as it can have a significant impact on the overall cost structure and profitability of the supply chain. Other factors, such as delivery speed, reliability, and service quality, may also be important when selecting a transportation provider, but cost is often a primary consideration.

Question 20

It is not possible to solve transportation models using spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel.

Accepted Answer

It is possible to solve transportation models using spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel, but it may not be the most efficient or scalable method for larger and more complex problems. Specialized software programs and mathematical modeling tools may be more appropriate for such cases.

Quiz 16: Supplement Operational Decision-Making Tools: Transportation and Transshipment Models

If a route is prohibited,units can be transported from a particular source to a particular destination.

In a transportation model the total supply and total demand must be equal.

Each cell in a transportation table represents the amount transported from one source to all destinations.

The stepping-stone method is a quantitative technique that can be used to solve transportation models quantitatively.

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total cost of the shipping plan is:

In a transportation model each source is able to supply a fixed number of units of the product and each destination has a fixed demand for the product.

Having more than one shipping distribution but with the same total cost is known as:

Two quantitative techniques that are used for determining the least cost means of transporting goods and services are the transportation method and the queuing method.

Transportation models can be solved within the context of a transportation table.

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total amount shipped from Portland to Dallas is:

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: How many units of Albany demand are supplied from Nashville?

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: How many units of New York demand are supplied from Omaha?

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total cost of the shipping plan is:

In an unbalanced transportation problem supply and demand are not equal.

The following transportation table shows the cost of shipping one unit from each source to each destination in the upper right hand corner of each cell,as well as the supply capacities and demand requirements: The optimal solution is: The total amount shipped from Boise to Los Angeles is:

The transshipment model is an extension of the transportation model in which intermediate transshipment points are added between the sources and destinations.

One way to incorporate a prohibited route in a transportation problem is to

An important factor in supply chain management is determining the lowest-cost transportation provider from among several alternatives.

It is not possible to solve transportation models using spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel.