Answer to Question #71728 in Marketing for hiram

Question

2. A marketing manager wants to assign four regions to four different salesmen. The salesmen differ in their efficiency and territories also differ in potentiality. An estimated sale (in Ks, 000s) by different sales men in the four territories are given below.
Territory
Salesman

X
Y
Z
W
A
16
13
17
23
B
7
12
37
18
C
10
25
14
9
D
25
27
18
25

Determine an optimal assignment schedule for maximum sales.