Previous researchers considered facility location problems with transportation decisions or facility location problem with inventory decisions costs but integration among them in a multi-echelon supply chain have not given much attention. In the same time, the implications of this involvement to the decisions in selecting facility locations are more significant when the structure of supply chain system is multi-echelon. This book reviews the existing literature regarding the integration of inventory and transportation into location-allocation modelling in multi-echelon distribution system....
Previous researchers considered facility location problems with transportation decisions or facility location problem with inventory decisions costs b...