The make-to-forecast manufacturing environment is characterized by the manufacture of individual, expensive-to-store units which come in alternative configurations or models. Since the production lead times are longer than customers are willing to wait, production is started in anticipation of...

This paper describes an efficient solution procedure for the warehouse location problem in which limitations on the amount of goods which can be handled are also imposed. The proposed branch-and-bound solution method is made efficient by developing dominance, lower and upper bounding procedures...

This paper considers the problem of optimally locating multi-activity facilities whose activity compositions are also to be determined. It is assumed that there are fixed costs associated both with establishing facilities and with including specific activities at the locations. This problem is...