Facility Location for Logistic Network Designusing Alternate Location Procedure and Minisum Location Allocation Method

摘要

Logistic management is actually the process of locating an optimal location for providing the facility. The distribution centers (DCS) can be a place in village, beside of local roads, beside of main highways, or highly populated area in a city. So, it is necessary to find an optimal location to speed up the distribution and also to minimize the cost. It is clearly an important process to find optimal location for the DCs and also the number of DCs. The efficiency of the criteria adopted in this case will certainly affect the total performance. In this work it evaluated two linear methods known as ALA and minisum location allocation for facility location in logistics. In this work, itis going to find the optimum locations of DCs for logistic network design.