Facility location decisions play a critical role in the strategic design of supply chain networks.
In this paper, a literature review of facility location models in the context of supply chain …

The design of the distribution system is a strategic issue for almost every company. The
problem of locating facilities and allocating customers covers the core topics of distribution …

Managing operations in today's competitive marketplace poses significant challenges. The
traditional thought was that there were so many conflicts in the multiple demands on the …

This research focuses on planning biofuel refinery locations where the total system cost for
refinery investment, feedstock and product transportation and public travel is minimized …

Most distribution network design models considered to date have focused on minimizing
fixed costs of facility location and transportation costs. Measures of customer satisfaction …

This paper presents a brief description of some existing models of facility location problems
(FLPs) in solid waste management. The study provides salient information on commonly …

This paper presents a generic methodology to design the production-distribution network of
divergent process industry companies in a multinational context. The methodology uses a …

We consider a two-stage supply chain with a production facility that replenishes a single
product at retailers. The objective is to locate distribution centers in the network such that the …

We consider the problem of assigning stockkeeping units to distribution centers (DCs)
belonging to different DC types of a retail network, eg, central, regional, and local DCs. The …

We consider a multi-commodity supply chain design problem in which we need to determine
where to locate facilities and how to allocate customers to facilities so as to minimize total …