Transportation Matrix

Use this forum to post Vensim related questions.
Post Reply
T_Brewer
Junior Member
Posts: 6
Joined: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:19 pm

Transportation Matrix

Post by T_Brewer »

I am modeling a production process and want to observe the influences of shipping input products to various production sites. The hope is to capture if system wide cost effiencencies can be made and how they effect other important operating parameters. The current issue I am having is weighing the complications assocaited with tieing each office to the others vs. a virtual clearing house idea (always empty). Tieing multiple offices together is accurate at the cost of complexity. I add a variable "Shipment from A to B" on the A model and shadow it on the B model. Unfortunately there are 37 offices. The second option has the exact opposite benefits and burdens. Any comments are greatly appreciated. In the end this model is meant to compliment a linear programming model
LAUJJL
Senior Member
Posts: 1445
Joined: Fri May 23, 2003 10:09 am
Vensim version: DSS

reply transportation problem

Post by LAUJJL »

Have you tried the two options with only 2 offices? Simplifying the problem to get insights is never a lost of time.

J.J. Laublé
Post Reply