A genetic algorithm approach to the bi-criteria allocation of customers to warehouses

A genetic algorithm approach to the bi-criteria allocation of customers to warehouses

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Article ID: iaor20041412
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 86
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 35
End Page Number: 45
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
Authors: , ,
Keywords: genetic algorithms, customer care
Abstract:

In today's customer-centric business environment, a firm's ability to allocate its customers to available warehouses can be translated into a competitive advantage. With its increasing significance, the problem of allocating a set of customers to multiple warehouses has begun to draw attention from practitioners and acedemicians alike. This paper proposes a mathematical model and an efficent solution procedure for the bi-criteria allocation problem involving multiple warehouses with different capacities. The proposed solution procedure utilizes a genetic that is designed to find Pareto optimal solutions for this problem in a short period of time. The application of the proposed model and solution procedure to a real-world problem demonstrates its usefulness and practicality.

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