In this paper, we study the distribution network design problem integrating transportation and infinite horizon multiechelon inventory cost function. We consider the trade-off between inventory cost, direct shipment cost, and facility location cost in such a system. The problem is to determine how many warehouses to set up, where to locate them, how to serve the retailers using these warehouses...

We analyze the probabilistic variation of the multicommodity discrete network design problem named the probabilistic network design problem in which the commodities are generated probabilistically and the objective is to calculate the expected value of all possible network design instances. We extend the a priori strategy which has been successfully applied to the probabilistic variations of th...

This paper designs a mathematical model for supply chain network design problem including plants, distributors and customers in fuzzy environment. Each plant and distributor has several levels capacities. A multi-mode demand strategy is considered for the customers where only one of the modes is to be selected for each customer. Considering the acceptance degree of fuzzy constraints violated, a...