Exact algorithms for integrated facility location and production planning problems

Integrating facility location and produc

Integrating facility location and production planning decisions

✍ H. Edwin Romeijn; Thomas C. Sharkey; Zuo-Jun Max Shen; Jiawei Zhang 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB

## Abstract We consider a metric uncapacitated facility location problem where we must assign each customer to a facility and meet the demand of the customer in future time periods through production and inventory decisions at the facility. We show that the problem, in general, is as hard to approx