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This work considers the strategic Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) problem, which is to define number and location of facilities, flow products among them fulfilling a long-term deterministic demand. A two-phase heuristic approach was specially developed solve large scale problems in reasonable time, extending previous algorithm introduced Farias et al. (2017). In construction phase, multi-st...

For the replacement of fossil fuel forestry biomass should help mitigating Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. However the supply of energy wood is challenging because of high supply costs and rapidly increasing demand. Considering the typical, heterogeneous structure of landownership, contractors and energy producers in Mid-Europe, supply network optimization becomes of major importance. Mathemat...