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(The following description was used when this course was taught during the Spring 2007 Semester. There will likely be differences in the instructor, textbook, and/or outline the next time the course is taught.)
Instructor: Dr. Halit Üster
Textbook : R.L. Francis, L.F. McGinnis and J.A. White, Facility Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cli s, N.J. 1992.
References :
M.S. Daskin, Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms and Applications, John Wiley
and Sons, New York, NY. 1995.
R.F. Love, J.G. Morris and G.O. Wesolowsky, Facilities Location: Models and Methods, North-
Holland, New York, NY. 1988.Description :A modern industrial society is characterized by the ability to produce and consume vast quantities of goods and services. With literally an in nite choice of possibilities of how to move and store goods in a logistical system, the logistics engineer must be able to comprehend the needs of the system (objectives, constraints) and be able to design an efficient set of rules for managing it. For example, decisions must be made on the number and the location of manufacturing plants and distribution centers, customer allocations-service levels, the levels of inventory to be carried at each stage of the system and efficient and e ective ways of moving the inventory in the system. The tools and techniques to be discussed in this course will be applicable to a wide variety of situations in the logistical strategic and tactical decision making context. Thus, the objective of the course is to acquaint the student with the eld of business logistics, the problems encountered therein, and the methods of analysis used to solve these problems.
Course Topics
- Introduction to Logistics-Components, Objectives, Issues
- Planar Single-Facility Location Models
- Planar Multi-Facility Location Models
- Planar Location-Allocation Problem
- Location Models on Tree Networks
- Location Models on General Networks (Covering, n-Center, n-Median)
- Discrete Location Models (Uncapacitated, Capacitated)
- Layout Design-Quadratic Assignment Problem (Heuristics)
