Facility Location in a Three-Echelon Supply Chain with Stochastic Demand: A Discrete-Event Simulation Approach (original) (raw)

Abstract

The facility location problem under numerous conditions and restrictions has been discussed extensively in past studies. The location problem of supply chain facilities and centers may be considered as an example. According to numerous studies conducted in the area of centers’ location in the supply chain, the examination process has moved closer to more realistic assumptions. This paper discusses the problem of locating facilities in a three echelon Supply chain with the consideration of responding to multi products in a stochastic demand environment. As the proposed model requires a long computational time, an innovative problem-solving method based on discrete-event simulation is utilized and presented with a numerical example.

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  16. Biography Hasan Hosseini-Nasab is an associate professor at the University of Yazd, Iran. He received his Ph.D at the University Of Bath, UK, 2001. He has worked on facility location and cost management for 20 years.
  17. Morteza Elahi is received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, from IUST University and Yazd University respectively. His interest areas are simulation models, system dynamics methodology, modeling/ analysis of socio-economic problems. He has performed diverse consulting projects in human resources planning, strategic marketing and supply chain using System Dynamics.
  18. Hamed Elahi is currently a freelance software developer, and as he has sufficient experience in computer systems analysis and MATLAB programming, is working on a program for aviculture management. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Sadjad Institute, Mashhad, Iran. He has published a conference paper. His research interests include optimization, simulation, operation research and systems analysis.