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TRANSPORTATION COST MINIMIZATION OF A MANUFACTURING FIRM USING GENETIC ALGORITHM APPROACH
2016
Nigerian Journal of Technology
This study utilizes a Genetic Algorithm in solving the transportation problem of a beverage producing company in Nigeria with a view to minimizing the total transportation cost and obtaining an optimal schedule or schedules using transportation cost data from the peak periods (January to April and August to December) in the 2014/2015 production year which witnessed a fifty per cent (50%) rise in the cost of diesel (a major contributor to the transportation cost) and a corresponding increase in
doi:10.4314/njt.v35i4.22
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