Background: We study one of the most important problems in production and warehouse management: the problem of determining how to allocate the initial stock and the quantity produced to bins, and then how to manage picking operations from these bins. The objective is to minimize the total cost...

Background: This study presents an integrated multi-product, multi-period queuing location-allocation model for a sustainable, three-level food supply chain involving farmlands, facilities, and markets. The model employs M/M/C/K queuing systems to optimize the transportation of goods, enhancing...