In construction projects, distribution costs for material procurement support the design process of a projects and are also very influential and determine project planning. It is also necessary to utilize costs as optimally as possible to anticipate losses to the company due to the problem of distributing material from the supply to the projects location. In a project, materials needed in large quantities cannot always be met by just one material source. Because of this, several material sources are needed to meet the needed to meet the needs of a project, for this reason this research was carried out using two transportaastion methods, North West Corner fot initial solution and Stepping Stone for the optimum solution. With the aim of calculating material distribution costs to find optimal prices from galunggung, suli banda, and passo to housing demand locations in Ambon City, namely kusu-kusu, suli and upper halong. From the results of the above topic, it can be concluded that optimizing the distribution costs of brick material to housing in Ambon City using th initial North West Corner method obtained a distribution cost of Rp. 349,200.000 and using and advanced method, namely Stepping Stone which has been optimized, resulting in a cost of Rp. 274,655,000 this results in savings of Rp. 74,545.000.Keywords:Cost Optimasion, Housing, Material Distribution, North Westh Corner, Stepping Stone,
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