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Frank Lauren Hitchcock, who lived between 1875 and 1957, was one of the American mathematicians and also a physicist who is well known for the formulation of transportation problem in the year 1941. He formulated the transportation problem often called Hitchcock problem which helps the manufacturer to ferry goods to all supply point. The formulation seeks to give a solution I a situation where a manufacturer has some factories in which each produces goods at a fixed output rate. Also, a manufacturer has some warehouses each of which holds a fixed storage capacity. The manufactured goods need to be transported to the warehouse for a temporal storage, and there is a cost incurred in this transportation (Hitchcock, 2015). The problem here is to find a route for transporting goods right from the factory to the warehouses has the lowest possible cost. Frank Lauren Hitchcock came up with a mathematical model that considers all the constraints involved and ought exactly what to be done with the lowest possible cost. The model gives the most feasible routes followed from the factory to the warehouse and the lowest cost involved. The model has helped to cut down the transportation cost and thus giving higher profit to firms and businesses (Ahmed, 2015).

The influencer brought a mathematical model that is used in decision making in the route followed in transporting goods to different destinations. The model works after identifying different routes, the cost for each route, the demand of each warehouse and the supply that each factory can supply. Frank Lauren Hitchcock invented Northwest Corner Method, which was used to solve the above problem. This model has undergone many revolutions until a new method invented by Vogel (Vogel’s Approximation Method) came into existence (Stroh, 2006). The method is the modification of the North West corner method and is dedicated to giving a solution that is most feasible.

Frank Lauren did his first course at Philips Andover Academy then he entered Harvard University and later taught in Paris and at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Frank was in the fields of Chemistry and Mathematics, and he studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and North Dakota State University. He taught chemistry at North Dakota State University Fargo. He graduated from Harvard and obtained a Ph.D. with a thesis titled Vector Functions of Point and he stayed in MIT until his retirement and publishing his analysis of optimal distribution in 1941.

References Ahmed, B. (2015). Planning and Management for VIP Plastics. Ghana: Ghana Ltd. in Kumasi. Hitchcock, S. K. (2015). Book Review. Stroh, M. B. (2006). A practical guide to transportation and logistics. Dumant: Logistics network.