Facility location decisions play a critical role in designing logistics networks. This article provides some guidelines … on how location decisions and logistics functions can be integrated into a single mathematical model to optimize the … configuration of a logistics network. This will be illustrated by two generic models, one supporting the design of a forward …

The design of closed-loop logistics (forward and reverse logistics) has attracted growing attention with the stringent …-period and multi-objective closed-loop logistics network model with regard to facility expansion as a facility location …