In today’s extremely competitive marketplace, firms are facing the need to meet orexceed increasing customer expectations while cutting costs to stay competitive in aglobal market. To develop competitive advantage in this business climate, companiesmust make informed decisions regarding their supply chain.In recent years, supply chain networks have received increasing attention amongcompanies. The decision makers confront the network design problem in differentsituations. In order to make decisions, especially in strategic supply chainmanagement, decision makers must have a holistic view of all the components.Supply chain network design, particular facility location problems, is one of the mostcomplex strategic decision problems in supply chain managementThe aim of this dissertation is to make an inquiry about the facility location problemsand related issues in supply chain and logistics management, and the use of modellingapproaches to solve these problems.The methodology is to construct a review protocol by forming a review panel, anddeveloping a detailed search strategy with clear inclusion and exclusion criteria. Inaddition, the measurement for evaluating the quality of studies is presented with astrategy for extracting data and synthesising the methodologies.The search results show the background of the facility location problems, theimportance and the basic questions of these problems. The taxonomy of facilitylocation problems with eighteen factors is presented. The basic static anddeterministic problems in facility location including the covering, centre, median andfixed charge problems are discussed. Also, the extension of facility location problemscomprises of location-allocation, multi-objective, hierarchical, hub, undesirable andcompetitive problems. In terms of uncertainty, dynamic, stochastic and robust facilitylocation problems are presented.Finally, strengths and weaknesses of different modelling approaches are discussed;importantly, gaps from the review process are indentified. Recommendations offuture research are described; and the facility location problem to be addressed by theproposed research is shown. In addition, contributions of the proposed facilitylocation problem are illustrated.
