Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation

Perfect for a single-semester course in industrial engineering, management and transportation science, logistics, systems engineering, and other fields that require location-allocation decisions!This reference/text introduces and demonstrates pragmatic methods for solving complex problems in facilities location: choosing from among known feasible sites or a broad range described as an area, placing facilities, and assigning customers. Emphasizes careful location and customer allocation to determine optimum use of time and cost-improving flow of material and services and reducing the need for duplication or construction redundancies!Describing location selection when costs are fixed, variable, or time and distance dependent, Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation reveals single and multiple facility location algorithmsoutlines efficient tour development algorithms that generate travel routes for servicing different customersformulates linear programming models to illustrate mathematical structures with solutions by simpler alternate methods applies fuzzy logic, analytical hierarchy procedure, and a ranking method to location selection details minimization of maximum distance, the circle covering problem, undesirable facility location, and linear path facility developmentdiscusses machine layout models for efficient material flow analysisexplains where to place a competitive facility and how to develop a transportation hub offers methods for locating facilities on transportation networkssolves quadratic assignment problems with the branch and bound procedure and easy-to-apply heuristics and more!Features independently organized, self-contained chapters and solved examples that illustrate specific procedures! Containing over 700 tables and equations, Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation is a superb reference for industrial, cost, systems, transportation, and logistics engineers; engineering and operations managers; and mathematical programmers; and an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.