Background: Logistics operations are integral to manufacturing systems, particularly in the transportation processes that occur not only between facilities and stakeholders but also between warehouses and workstations within a facility. The design of functional areas and allocating goods to...

The received characterizations of feasible interim allocations are mostly in the spirit of Border (1991): Fix a family of sets, each containing some player-types, and test the interim allocation under consideration against all these sets. In the published literature, such Border-like...

Warehouse layout optimization is critical to inventory and logistics management in organizations. In many instances, limited warehouse space is a constraint and a barrier to expanding operations and increasing demand. We present a multi-step solution using mixed integer programming to improve...

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Shipment Consolidation (VRPSC) is a novel variation of the vehicle routing problem that involves multiple commodities, multiple dimensions, a fleet with different types of vehicles, and the challenge of consolidating shipments during the route. Exact algorithms...