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