A transportation problem in which the total amount to be shipped is not equal to the total demand. The unbalanced problem can be stated as a standard transportation problem by the addition of a fictitious destination when the supply is greater than the demand, or by adding a fictitious origin if the demand is greater than the supply. In the first case, the demand at the fictitious destination is the difference between the total supply and total demand, while in the second case, the supply at the fictitious origin is the difference between the total demand and total supply. Transportation problem.
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Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (2001). UNBALANCED Transportation problem . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_1080
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