A New Algorithm to Solve Pentagonal Fuzzy Transportation Problem.

Optimization is very useful in the problems like transportation problems which is a special case of linear programming problems. It is an extremely handy tool for demand and supply chains to minimize time or cost and maximize profit. In this paper, we presented a new ranking method and a new algorithm to solve pentagonal FTP. We compared the solution with the proposed algorithm with the solution of existing methods. Here we transform FTP into a crisp problem and by using the proposed ranking technique we solved numerical examples to demonstrate the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]