In response to increasing inflexible customer demands and to maintain/ improve the competitive advantage, manufacturing organizations must adopt strategies to achieve cost reduction, continual quality improvement, increased customer service and on-time delivery performance. Selection of the most...

Facility layout selection is an important and critical issue faced by every organization, while setting up and allocating the available or new facilities in a given location. While selecting the most suitable layout, due attention is usually paid to minimize the total transportation cost between...