Optimization and analysis of some variants through Vogel's approximation method (VAM)

VAM is one of the most efficient solution to the transportation problems. In VAM Variants are proposed using total opportunity cost and allocation cost. Through the survey of computational experiments the results are evaluated through VAM and improved version of VAM Performance if improved version of VAM over VAM is also discussed and analysis through iterations. Total opportunity cost in transportation has been studied through critical problem in industries, military etc. In Analysis we found that the quality of solution in basic version of VAM coupled with total opportunity cost yields a very efficient initial solution. In survey experiment on an average about 20% of the time, the VAMTOC yields the optimal solution and about 80% of the time it yields to a solution nearest to the optimal Value. A comparative study is also shown through various charts.