Titel:
Heuristic for multi-echelon facility location problems with non-linear inventory considerations
Beteiligte:
Bolkart, Christoph
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Erschienen:
Munich University of Technology (TUM): mediaTUM, 2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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Beschreibung:
This thesis aims to extend ”facility location - allocation” problems in three directions. Multiple products are considered, a second echelon of distribution centers is added, and the non-linear inventory costs are included in objective function. Solving such problems with linear optimization techniques proves to be too computationally expen- sive. Therefore, a heuristic approach, based on genetic algorithms, will be developed. In the heuristic approach a large number of non-linear flow problems are solved, for which a simple and efficient algorithm will be formulated. Using this heuristic, large real world problems can be solved in relatively short time.