Determination of Number and Location of Central Warehouses by Heuristics

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  • Lee, Dong-Ju (Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Hwang, In-Keuk (Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Park, Dong-Jin (Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, Kongju National University)
  • 이동주 (공주대학교산업시스템공학과) ;
  • 황인극 (공주대학교산업시스템공학과) ;
  • 박동진 (공주대학교산업시스템공학과)
  • Received : 20050800
  • Accepted : 20060200
  • Published : 2006.03.31

Abstract

A centralized inventory system provides a number of stores with cost reduction, information sharing. In this paper, transportation costs are included in the inventory model. To build centralized warehouses, two things should be considered: how many warehouses are required and where these are located. The objective of this paper is to develop efficient heuristics to determine the location and the number of central warehouses by minimizing total costs. Throughout some computational experiments, the results of the heuristics are compared with an optimal solution.

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