TRANSPORTATION METHODS TO OPTIMIZE SHIPPING COSTS FOR RESEARCH SOIL SAMPLES FOR STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, INDONESIAN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Garuda express delivery is a services delivery air service done door to door collection service. Since the beginning of the establishment GED have has a great commitment to give the real who in accordance with international standards for a company courier and cargo.But , cost of unstable led defeat in compete .Besides the accuracy of delivery goods to the customer also very influenced the quality of service .For that required modeling right to issue delivery of goods on GED namely by transportation model and techniques transportation resolution , so that the cost of the deliver transportation merchandise can be optimal .A method of problem solving that used is the northwest corner-method , least cost-method and vogel aproximal-method , applied to in application pom-qm for windows 5 .So the results that is the total cost of goods to some city destination optimal of Rp. 1.525.000, -.