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What is the difference between Assignment Problem and Transportation Problem?

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The assignment problem is a special case of the transportation problem. The differences are given below.

Transportation ProblemAssignment Problem
1. This is about reducing cost of transportation merchandise1. This is about assigning finite sources to finite destinations where only one destination is allotted for one source with minimum cost
2. Number of sources and number of demand need not be equal2. Number of sources and the number of destinations must be equal
3. If total demand and total supply are not equal then the problem is said to be unbalanced.3. If the number of rows are not equal to the number of columns then problems are unbalanced.
4. It requires 2 stages to solve Getting initial basic feasible solution, by NWC, LCM, VAM and optimal solution by MODI method4. It has only one stage. Hungarian method is sufficient for obtaining an optimal solution



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