All organizations are interested in meeting or exceeding organization performance metrics. Resource allocation, risk management, and process improvement techniques (i.e. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.) are common approaches to improve organization performance. Although the operations aspect...

The efficiency and the effectiveness of supply chain networks primarily rely on facility location decisions. However, these decisions are closely related to the other supply chain management decisions, i.e., inventory management and transportation decisions. Therefore, the main goal of this...

In this thesis, we identify the critical operational characteristics for various distribution strategies, and then develop integrated distribution network design models by taking into account those operational factors. The first part of this thesis presents a crossdocking network design problem...