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 …

Plants, distribution centers, and other facilities generally function for years or decades,
during which time the environment in which they operate may change substantially. Costs …

We present a survey of over 50 representative problems in location research. Our goal is not
to review all variants of different location models or to describe solution results, but rather to …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

The study of facility siting decisions has a long and extensive history. As this area of
research has evolved, there has been increasing recognition that the complexity of these …

The p‐median problem is a network problem that was originally designed for, and has been
extensively applied to, facility location. In this bibliography, we summarize the literature on …

In this chapter we outline the importance of facility location decisions in supply chain design.
We begin with a review of classical models including the traditional fixed charge facility …

In the event of a catastrophic bio-terror attack, major urban centers need to efficiently
distribute large amounts of medicine to the population. In this paper, we consider a facility …

In this paper, we present a stochastic version of the location model with risk pooling (LMRP)
that optimizes location, inventory, and allocation decisions under random parameters …

In this research, we apply robust optimization (RO) to the problem of locating facilities in a
network facing uncertain demand over multiple periods. We consider a multi‐period fixed …