Location modelling in logistics.

Author(s)
Wilson, D. & Cai, A.
Year
Abstract

The location of factories and warehouses has always been considered an important part of many disciplines: geography, regional science, transport studies, operations management, industrial economics and, more recently, logistics. Logistics texts usually treat this as a transhipment problem or transportation problem where there are fixed locations of supplies and customers and it is desired to optimally locate a facility to minimise some combination of production and transport costs between the origins and destinations. More recently interest in location studies have been re-awakened with the attention of business executives on supply chains. This paper uses a more general heuristic framework of simulated annealing to solve a generalised location supply chain model where it is easy to vary supply, demand and intermediate locations. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E211903.

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C 33936 (In: C 33911 CD-ROM) /71 /72 / ITRD E211944
Source

In: CAITR-2004 : [proceedings of the] 26th Conference of the Australian Institutes of Transport Research “Committing to research and development for the next generation”, Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 December 2004, 9 p., 3 ref.

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