Abstract
In today’s industrial world, manufacturing units are trying to reduce their costs by properly locating the warehouses they need as well as routing vehicles to transport manufactured goods to these warehouses. In fact, the inventory-routing location model is an integrated supply chain design model that simultaneously optimizes location, inventory, and routing decisions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated model for locating warehouses, allocating stores to warehouses, and finding inventory at the end of the course and routing decisions such as determining the routes of vehicles starting from a distribution center opened to serve customers. Eventually return to the same distribution center; in such a way that the total system costs are minimized. The model is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model (MILP) and a robust optimization approach has been used to optimize the problem under uncertainty conditions. To solve the model and demonstrate its feasibility, GAMS software and to compare the results of the software MATLAB is used.
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