by Dileep R. Sule

Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation 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.

This book 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 algorithms
• outlines efficient tour development algorithms that generate travel routes for servicing different customers
• formulates 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 development
• discusses machine layout models for efficient material flow analysis
• explains where to place a competitive facility and how to develop a transportation hub
• offers methods for locating facilities on transportation networks
• solves quadratic assignment problems with the branch and bound procedure and easy-to-apply heuristics
• and more!

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.

Contents

1. Introduction and Qualitative Methods
   Introduction and the Traditional Approach
   Fuzzy Logic and the Analytical Hierarchy Procedure

2. Basic Quantitative Models
   Single-Facility Minisum Location
   Alternative Objectives in Single-Facility Location
   Multiple Facility Location
   Basic Location–Allocation Model
   Network Facility Location

3. Tour Development Models
   Logistics in Tour Development

4. Additional Quantitative Models
   Dynamic Facility Locations
   Simultaneous Facility Location
   Transportation Network Problems
   Allocation: Selection Models in the Production Environment

Index

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