The purpose of this article is to evaluate the value of integrating tactical warehouse and inventory decisions. Therefore, a global warehouse and inventory model is presented and solved. In order to solve this mathematical model, two solution methodologies are developed which offer different...

In problems involving the simultaneous optimization of production and transportation, the requirement that an order can only be shipped once its production has been completed is a natural one. One example is a problem of optimizing shipping costs subject to a production capacity constraint...