EGGSHELL BREAKAGE RESTRICTED BI- CRITERIA EGGS TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM

Abstract

Eggs are most fundamental and important foodstuff in everyday life for all developed and developing countries. It is not sufficient only to produce and transport eggs at a reasonable cost but arrangements must be made to ensure that the eggs reach the consumers well in time.In between the two extremes of minimization of eggs shipping cost and minimization of eggs shipping time, there exist a number of situations where an eggs transportation system decision maker would like a partial
trade-off on shipping cost to attain a certain degree of shipping time advantages.From laying to the final destination, more
eggs are broken during shipping than in any other step; therefore, losses due to eggshell breakage are greatest during shipping. In this paper, an algorithm and its underlying theory is developed to solve eggshell breakage restricted bi-criteria eggs
transportation problem. This paper discusses a more realistic and general assumption that the eggs shipping time of bi-criteria eggs transportation problem depends on the quantity of the eggs transported and is an increasing piecewise constant function.
The algorithm is also supported by a real life eggs shipping problem of Tamil Nadu, India.