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Warehouses play a vital role in mitigating variations in supply and demand, and in providing value added services in a supply chain. Minimizing the cost of transporting products from production and storage locations to demand centers is an essential part of maintaining profitability for companies who deal with product distribution. The transportation problems deals with the transportation of product manufactured at different plants or factories (supply origins) to a number of different warehouses (demand destination). The objective is to satisfy the destination requirements within the plant's capacity constraints at the minimum transportation cost. Transportation problems thus typically arise in situations involving physical movement of good from plants to warehouses, warehouses to warehouses, wholesalers to retailers and retailers to customers. In this paper we are discussing how products are shipped from a typical warehouse to showroom in Bengaluru city and try to get an optimal solution using Operation Research technique.