The vendors who supplied barge transportation that offered clean storage space $($Class I$)$ charged a premium $(30$ per ton$)$ beyond the normal delivery charges, but the availability of such clean$-$storage barges was only $30$ per cent.

Kumar knew that he could place a request with port officials to have Class II vendors provide clean storage space on their barges. In such a case, the vendors would charge an additional $25$ per ton, and Kumar estimated only a $75$ per cent chance that the cleaning would actually be done. He remembered that Class I vendors had a record of $80$ per cent timely delivery, whereas the Class II vendors had a record of only $35$ per cent. The combined cost of transporting coils to the port in Goa by rake and then to the Mudra port by barge was approximately $22$ per cent cheaper than that of transporting the coils directly by rail. JSW$$s past records showed some variation in activity times across both modes of transportation $($see Exhibit $4).$

KUMAR$$S PROBLEM

The quantity of steel ordered by JSAW was $7,000$ tons $(6,350$ tonnes$),$ of which $5,000$ tons $(4,535$ tonnes$)$ had already been produced; the remaining $2,500$ tons $(2,267$ tonnes$)$ was under production and was scheduled to be ready for dispatch by $10$ p$.$m$.$ that same day, Sunday. The conditions