The Retailer Facility Location Problem: January 1985 (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Donald B. Rosenfield
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1332280080
ISBN-139781332280087
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This paper discusses the problem of location of distribution centers in retailing networks and presents a successful case study for dealing with such a problem. While mathematical programming approaches for facility location problems for manufacturing firms have been extensively used [2], [3], [4], there has been very little treatment for the specific, somewhat simpler case, of locating facilities for a retailer. For a manufacturing firm for example, the problem of locating distribution centers (DC's) is compounded by manufacturing choice. That is, alternative plants can be used to produce different products, or customers can procure different products from different plants. In a retail environment, individual stores will generally have certain fixed requirements from each vendor. Hence, once a specific distribution center is assigned to a given store, all of the inbound (to the D.C., as based on fixed vendor requirements) and outbound (D.C. to stores) transportation and pipeline inventory costs and unit costs can be determined.
This determination of costs will in fact lead to a relatively simple subproblem given the specific facility locations. Specifically, a problem that is potentially three echelons can be reduced to two echelons. In most retailing environments, a store must be assigned uniquely to a distribution center. With the exception of this type of integer constraint, however, the assignment of stores, to a fixed set of distribution centers is a simple, two-echelon transportation problem.
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This paper discusses the problem of location of distribution centers in retailing networks and presents a successful case study for dealing with such a problem. While mathematical programming approaches for facility location problems for manufacturing firms have been extensively used [2], [3], [4], there has been very little treatment for the specific, somewhat simpler case, of locating facilities for a retailer. For a manufacturing firm for example, the problem of locating distribution centers (DC's) is compounded by manufacturing choice. That is, alternative plants can be used to produce different products, or customers can procure different products from different plants. In a retail environment, individual stores will generally have certain fixed requirements from each vendor. Hence, once a specific distribution center is assigned to a given store, all of the inbound (to the D.C., as based on fixed vendor requirements) and outbound (D.C. to stores) transportation and pipeline inventory costs and unit costs can be determined.
This determination of costs will in fact lead to a relatively simple subproblem given the specific facility locations. Specifically, a problem that is potentially three echelons can be reduced to two echelons. In most retailing environments, a store must be assigned uniquely to a distribution center. With the exception of this type of integer constraint, however, the assignment of stores, to a fixed set of distribution centers is a simple, two-echelon transportation problem.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
