Continuous location of an assembly station

• Frank Plastria ^[1] ; Mohamed Elosmani ^[2]
  1. [1] Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Bélgica

     
  2. [2] École Normale Supérieure

     École Normale Supérieure

     Francia

     
• Localización: Top, ISSN-e 1863-8279, ISSN 1134-5764, Vol. 21, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 323-340
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Demand existing at client points in the plane for several products should be met. Products have to be assembled from different components obtainable at given prices at various sources with known production capacities. The optimal design of the resulting supply chain must be determined, including the location of a central assembly station in the plane, so as to minimize the total operational cost comprising buying and transport of components as well as transport of final products. This problem leads to a difficult nonlinear and non-convex optimization problem for which a locally convergent algorithm is proposed. Some computational results are presented.