How to create transportation table with long text in it

Question

Can anyone help me to improve this transportation table so that it fits between the sentences in it and the size of the table?

It should be like this:

This is the latex coding for the transportation table. Reference. Thank you in advance.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcommand{\STAB}[1]{\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}#1\end{tabular}}
\newcolumntype{C}{@{}c@{}}
\newcommand{\bottombox}[1]{\makebox[1em][r]{#1}\hspace{\tabcolsep}\hspace{1em}}%
\newcommand{\innerbox}[2]{%
    \begin{tabular}[b]{c|c}
        \rule{1em}{0pt}\rule[-1ex]{0pt}{1ex} & \makebox[1em]{#2} \\cline{2-2}
        \multicolumn{2}{r}{{#1}\hspace{1\tabcolsep}\hspace{1em}\rule[-1ex]{0pt}{1ex}}
\end{tabular}}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table} [h]
        \centering
        \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}
        {\begin{tabular}{|c|c|C|C|C|c|}
                \hline
                \multicolumn{2}{|c}{\multirow{2}{}{From $ \backslash $ To}} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Destinations} & \multirow{2}{}{Supply} \ \cline{3-5}
                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{} & Sales Outlet H & Sales Outlet I & Sales Outlet J & \ \hline
                \multirow{3}{*}{\STAB{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{Sources}}} & Warehouse A & \innerbox{}{$(6,8,10,12)} & \innerbox{}{$(5,7,9,11)} & \innerbox{}{$(2,4,6,8)} & (15,20,30,35) \ \cline{2-6}
                & Warehouse B & \innerbox{}{$(3,5,7,9)} & \innerbox{}{$(5,7,9,11)} & \innerbox{}{$(1,3,5,7)} & (25,30,40,45) \ \cline{2-6}
                & Warehouse C & \innerbox{}{$(4,6,8,10)} & \innerbox{}{$(3,5,7,9)} & \innerbox{}{$(6,8,10,12)} & (30,35,45,50) \ \hline
                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Demand} & (15,25,35,45) & (10,20,30,40) & (30,40,50,60) & \ \hline
        \end{tabular}}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

What do you mean by "it fits between the sentences in it and the size of the table?" Which sentences? And what does "and the size of the table" mean? Could you give a picture of what you actually want, maybe a hand drawing that you scan? — Pieter van Oostrum, Oct 11 '22 at 18:22
Sorry I forgot to explain about that. But now I've fixed my question. Thank you in advance for your response. @PietervanOostrum — Natashpa, Oct 12 '22 at 07:46
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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '22 at 11:49

I suppose you want all the inner boxes to have the same width, as your picture shows. Howver this is quite hard (although not impossible) to do in LaTeX. It would two runs. So I chose the easy way. I have a length \innerboxwidth for this. You must initialize it to the width of the widest entry, as I have done in my solution.

By the way, I changed the \multirow for Sources to 5 because that centers it better.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{array}
\newcommand{\STAB}[1]{\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}#1\end{tabular}}
\newcolumntype{C}{@{}c@{}}
\newcommand{\bottombox}[1]{\makebox[1em][r]{#1}\hspace{\tabcolsep}\hspace{1em}}%
\newlength{\innerboxwidth}
\settowidth{\innerboxwidth}{$(6,8,10,12)}% widest entry
\newcommand{\innerbox}[2]{%
    \begin{tabular}[c]{c|>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{\innerboxwidth}}
        \rule{1em}{0pt} & {#2} \\cline{2-2}
        \multicolumn{2}{r}{{#1}\hspace{1\tabcolsep}\hspace{1em}\rule[-1ex]{0pt}{1ex}}
\end{tabular}}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table} [h]
        \centering
        \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}
        {\begin{tabular}{|c|c|C|C|C|c|}
                \hline
                \multicolumn{2}{|c}{\multirow{2}{}{From $ \backslash $ To}} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Destinations} & \multirow{2}{}{Supply} \ \cline{3-5}
                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{} & Sales Outlet H & Sales Outlet I & Sales Outlet J & \ \hline
                \multirow{5}{*}{\STAB{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{Sources}}} & Warehouse A & \innerbox{}{$(6,8,10,12)} & \innerbox{}{$(5,7,9,11)} & \innerbox{}{$(2,4,6,8)} & (15,20,30,35) \ \cline{2-6}
                & Warehouse B & \innerbox{}{$(3,5,7,9)} & \innerbox{}{$(5,7,9,11)} & \innerbox{}{$(1,3,5,7)} & (25,30,40,45) \ \cline{2-6}
                & Warehouse C & \innerbox{}{$(4,6,8,10)} & \innerbox{}{$(3,5,7,9)} & \innerbox{}{$(6,8,10,12)} & (30,35,45,50) \ \hline
                \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Demand} & (15,25,35,45) & (10,20,30,40) & (30,40,50,60) & \ \hline
        \end{tabular}}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

Your solution has been very helpful for solving my problem. Thank you very much! — Natashpa, Oct 13 '22 at 13:03

How to create transportation table with long text in it

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