A Facility Location Model for Bidirectional Flows

In this paper, the authors present three generic facility location models to explore reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains. These optimization models consider integrated distribution and the collection of products accommodating a variety of applications and industries. They quantify the value of integrated decision making in designing forward and reverse logistics networks that comprise different stages of a product's life cycle. The location of used product collection centers, with the corresponding assignment of product return flows to these centers, are included in the formulations in order to extend the uncapacitated fixed-charge location model. The author notes that their model, which also includes a Lagrangian relaxation-based solution algorithm, measures the implications of integrated decision making by comparing total facility and transportation costs with the cost of solutions where forward and reverse facility location decisions are either sequentially made or remain independent of each another. Moreover, the authors discuss the influence of integrated decision making on network configuration, while introducing a new network similarity measure for quantifying their analysis. The research includes computational results.

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• Authors:
  • Sahyouni, Kristin
  • Savaskan, R Canan
  • Daskin, Mark S
• Publication Date: 2007-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Illustrations; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 484-499
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Facilities; Life cycle analysis; Location theory; Logistics; Mathematical models; Network analysis (Planning); Numerical analysis; Optimization; Supply chain management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bidirectional flow; Transportation costs
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084561
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:09AM