I need some help with a workflow I've created around an optimization problem. I believe the result the tool is giving me should be infeasible. I'm enlisting the Alteryx community's help to find out what the problem is because I'm absolutely baffled.
The setup:
We run a distribution and marketing business distributes product across hundreds of possible truck routes depending on customer demand. We contract with outside freight haulers to move the product and I'm building a workflow to identify the lowest cost solution for moving things. The trucking companies that have a limited capacity to make runs and their capacity can vary by region.
The constraints are set where the demand has to be met without exceeding the available carrier capacity. I believe it's wanting to run a bunch of routes that have no demand and leaving out routes where demand exists... (see "infesasible" comments/annotations in the attached workflow).
If I need to provide more context or help understanding the workflow I'll gladly do so...
Please help!
Stumped
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Agreed, this should definitely be noted in the documentation. I am so glad I found this thread I would have been yelling at my computer for hours. (I was getting results that were explicitly set to be constrained against each other.)
Thanks!