Researches on a Purchasing Office Location Problem

摘要

In this paper, a purchasing office location problem that the multinational corporations consider setting up some purchasing offices in China under the economy globalization is investigated. A 0-1 integer programming model, which objective is to minimize the total cost including renting or purchasing hardware and software cost, labor costs and travel costs, is built via analyzing the relevant factors of influencing the instauration of the offices. The proposed model, which is solved by ILOG Company' s optimization software CPLEX, is examined its validity on an experimental example.