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Optimal Location of Plants

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  • Alain Alcouffe

    (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France)

  • Gilles Muratet

    (Institut du Genié chimique, Toulouse, France)

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This paper deals with the problem of a firm that searches the optimal location of plants under the following conditions: (1) Transport costs for delivery are incurred by the firm; transport costs between a plant and a customer are linear. (2) The customers' demands are known and have to be met; customers are scattered. (3) The possible plant locations are known. (4) The production cost, at each possible plant, may be divided into two parts: (a) a fixed charge supported only if there is some production; (b) a linear unit cost. The rigorous treatment of the problem involves the production and transport costs' being minimized for each combination of plant locations. This paper presents an algorithm using the special features of the problem that reduces the number of combinations of plant locations to study. A heuristic method based on market simulation is also shown to work pretty well.

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  • Alain Alcouffe & Gilles Muratet, 1976. "Optimal Location of Plants," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 23(3), pages 267-274, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:23:y:1976:i:3:p:267-274
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.23.3.267
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    1. Tsouros, C. & Satratzemi, M., 1996. "Optimal solution of a total time distribution problem," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(1-3), pages 473-478, August.
    2. Goldengorin, Boris, 2009. "Maximization of submodular functions: Theory and enumeration algorithms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 198(1), pages 102-112, October.

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