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Need help with Optimization Tool

rboehner79
6 - Meteoroid

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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paigens
7 - Meteor

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!

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