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Exact algorithms for integrated facility location and production planning problems
Author(s) -
Sharkey Thomas C.,
Geunes Joseph,
Edwin Romeijn H.,
Shen ZuoJun Max
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
naval research logistics (nrl)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1520-6750
pISSN - 0894-069X
DOI - 10.1002/nav.20458
Subject(s) - computer science , profit (economics) , production planning , mathematical optimization , revenue , production (economics) , revenue management , class (philosophy) , facility location problem , operations research , dimension (graph theory) , set (abstract data type) , holding cost , order (exchange) , economics , mathematics , macroeconomics , accounting , finance , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , programming language , microeconomics
We consider a class of facility location problems with a time dimension, which requires assigning every customer to a supply facility in each of a finite number of periods. Each facility must meet all assigned customer demand in every period at a minimum cost via its production and inventory decisions. We provide exact branch‐and‐price algorithms for this class of problems and several important variants. The corresponding pricing problem takes the form of an interesting class of production planning and order selection problems. This problem class requires selecting a set of orders that maximizes profit, defined as the revenue from selected orders minus production‐planning‐related costs incurred in fulfilling the selected orders. We provide polynomial‐time dynamic programming algorithms for this class of pricing problems, as well as for generalizations thereof. Computational testing indicates the advantage of our branch‐and‐price algorithm over various approaches that use commercial software packages. These tests also highlight the significant cost savings possible from integrating location with production and inventory decisions and demonstrate that the problem is rather insensitive to forecast errors associated with the demand streams. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011