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The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management (Collection)
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The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management (Collection)

by Chad W. Autry, Thomas J. Goldsby, John Bell, Mark A. Moon, Chuck Munson, Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, Jay Jayaraman
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1233 pages
30h 29m
English
Pearson
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3. Locating Facilities Using a Distance-Based Approach

As you saw from the examples in the introduction, supply chain network modeling can handle very sophisticated problems. To be able to model, optimize, and develop good solutions to complex supply chains, you need to understand the basics.

In this chapter, we will build on the problem structure developed in Chapter 2, “Intuition Building with Center of Gravity Models,” for Logistica. We will adapt and expand on what we learned by now applying it to a more realistically sized example from the retail industry. We will start with the most basic supply chain network model: optimally selecting “P” facility location(s) considering only distance. This will be your building block for further analysis ...

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ISBN: 9780133474626