| Article ID: | iaor20118315 |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 419 |
| End Page Number: | 437 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management |
| Authors: | Zhou Lina, Xu Xiaofei, Deng Shengchun |
| Keywords: | allocation: resources, networks, networks: scheduling, design, combinatorial optimization, optimization, programming: multiple criteria |
Designing logistics network is a crucial and frequent decision for manufacturers, particularly for those operating in large developing countries. The majority of the existing logistics network models are single objective and the optimisation objective is usually minimising cost. However, multiple and conflicting objectives usually need to be considered in designing a real‐life logistics network. In this paper, a complicated logistics network design problem is mathematically formulated as a multi‐objective programming model and a goal attainment based solution procedure is proposed. An example is given in the end, which introduces the application of the proposed approach in a practical problem.