Companies pursuing extension of their activities and new companies in establishment phase are using various concepts and techniques to consider location decision, because location greatly a®ects both ̄xed and variable costs and on the overall pro ̄t of the company. This paper suggests a new use of quality function deployment (QFD) for facility location selection problem instead of applying it to ...

Abstract In this paper, we focus on a location-routing problem (LRP) in the dairy industry. This consists of locating cold storage warehouse, from which vehicles limited capacity are dispatched to serve given number supermarkets with uncertain service requirements, and determining order served by each vehicle. First, LRP is solved using classical approach based deterministic model where i.e. cu...

Based on existence of the chromite deposits in the Sistan and Baluchestan province in Iran, and also various applications of chromite in different industries, it is expected that the establishment of chromite processing plant is required in the erelong. The geographical location of a processing plant can have a strong influence on the success of an industrial venture. The processing plant site ...