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Warehouse Location For High Frequency Jit Delivery

Document Type

Conference

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Proceedings - Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute

Volume

3

First Page

1426

Last Page

1428

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of high frequency delivery requirement of JIT manufacturing on warehouse locations in a two-level distribution system consisting of a single plant, one or more warehouses, and a number of customer hubs. A nonlinear location-allocation type mixed-integer programming model is developed to determine if and when such relocations are necessary. The model introduces a bivariate delivery cost function which is continuous in distance but discontinuous in delivery quantities. Use of this function permits the choice of a distance metric appropriate for each transport mode. Several examples are solved by using LINGO, and observations are made on the generality of solutions.

Department

Department of Management

Original Publication Date

12-1-1996

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