Hierarchical facility network planning model for global logistics network configurations

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3053-3066

  Sheu, Jiuh Biing ^a   Lin, Alex Y S ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Global logistics; Hierarchical facility network; Integer programming

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL LOGISTICS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL NETWORK; MULTI-OBJECTIVE PLANNING MODEL; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; NETWORK PLANNING; NUMERICAL RESULTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; PROFITABILITY;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 84858333542     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2011.09.095     Document Type: Article

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