Aplicación del método de la esquina noroeste para optimizar el programa de transporte de costo.

Abstract

Companies always seek to meet the expectations of users, where customer service is subject to the products arriving within the estimated times. To achieve this, transport companies have routes designed to reach the destination in the shortest possible time and with the minimum costs. However, it is often complex to achieve both, where the competition is increasingly demanding. The research deals with applying one of the methods to optimize transportation in terms of time and costs, being that of the northwest corner one of the best known and used for the solution of such problem. The objective of the research is to obtain an optimal transportation allocation using the northwest corner method to minimize the total cost of freight transportation. The methodology applied was analytics to describe the process that must be followed to optimize the operational costs of transport. The exercise proposes that the ports of Puerto Bolívar and Esmeraldas must cover demand from clients located in Quito, Lima, Bogotá and Caracas, for which the northwest corner method is used to calculate costs, culminating in the design of a transport system network.