A heuristic approach for large scale dis
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Larry J. LeBlanc
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Article
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1977
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Elsevier Science
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English
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An effective heuristic for determining plant locations and shipments to customers is described. It is assumed that there are a discrete number of possible locations and that the demand at each destination is a random variable. Thus the problem is to minimize expected holding and shortage costs, in a