Depot location with van salesmen -- A practical approach

Cdt Watson-Gandy and Pj Dohrn

Omega, 1973, vol. 1, issue 3, 321-329

Abstract: This paper describes a case study in depot location. The results of the study were required with some urgency and the time to perform any extensive data collection or analysis was not available. It was, therefore, imperative to make a number of assumptions about the model as the data immediately obtainable, though helpful, were limited. For this reason, and because of other limiting constraints, the computer was not used to optimize the model but to cost selected depot configurations. The model has three further points of interest: 1. (a) It uses a non-linear function of distance rather than straight-line distances to represent the multi-drop nature of the journeys;2. (b) It involves a "sales function" in which sales decline with distance from the depot;3. (c) It maximizes profits rather than minimizing costs.

Date: 1973
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