Home-delivered meals (HDM) provision is a volunteer-staffed activity for which little strategic planning is currently performed. We present and evaluate a Genetic Algorithm to solve the HDM locationrouting problem (LRP). This planning model addresses facility location, allocation of demand to facilities, and design of delivery routes, while balancing efficiency and effectiveness considerations....

in this study, a cross-docking system is designed at strategic and tactical levels. for making the strategic decisions, a multi-objective nonlinear location allocation model for cross-docks is presented based on a distri-bution location allocation model by andreas klose and andreas drexl. the model is further developed to in-clude the whole supply chain members and the objective functions are w...

We address a location-allocation problem that requires deciding the location of a set of facilities, the allocation of customers to those facilities under facility capacity constraints, and the allocation of the customers to trucks at those facilities under per truck traveldistance constraints. We present a hybrid approach that combines integer programming and constraint programming using logic...