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Facility Location Problem Of Beverage Distribution Considering Time Window And Land Use Plan Using Gis, Eunsu Lee, Alan D. Dybing, Sumadhur Shakya

College of Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

As the boundaries and population of urban areas expand, beverage distributors may seek to expand the capacity in their distribution centers. As a result, they may need to add new locations or increase the utilization of their existing center. This paper investigates the facility location problem through network space, considering traversable truck roads, thereby providing a strategic decision for identifying a depot location in consideration of vehicle routings from a real application. For the analysis, a geospatial tool, which is embedded in the commercial software ArcMap®, was used for routing and calibrating the model. Ten candidates from commercial and industrial …