The transportation problem is one of the classical problems teached in linear programming classes. The problem, put simply, states that a given set of customers with a specified demand must be satisfied by another set of supplier with certain capacities (“supply”). For a detailed explanation of the transportation problem you can, e.g. read this: https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jsobel/172aw02/notes8.pdf. The lpSolve […]