Distribution Centers Reliability Cost in Capacitated Facility Location Problem

Recently studies in area of supply chain network (SCN) have focused on the disruption issues in distribution systems. Also this paper extends the previous literature by providing a new biobjective model for cost minimization of designing a three echelon SCN across normal and failure scenarios with considering multi capacity option for manufacturers and distribution centers. Moreover, in order to solve the problem by means of LINGO software, novel model will be reformulated through a branch of LP-Metric method called Min-Max approach.

Authors:

• Mehdi Seifbarghy
• Sajjad Jalali
• Seyed Habib A. Rahmati

Keywords:

• Scenario programming
• Distribution
• Multi-echelon supply chain design
• Reliable facility

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