Overview of Dynamic Facility Layout Planning as a Sustainability Strategy

Pablo Pérez-Gosende, Josefa Mula and Manuel Díaz-Madroñero
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Pablo Pérez-Gosende: Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Josefa Mula: Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Manuel Díaz-Madroñero: Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 19, 1-16

Abstract: The facility layout design problem is significantly relevant within the business operations strategies framework and has emerged as an alternate strategy towards supply chain sustainability. However, its wide coverage in the scientific literature has focused mainly on the static planning approach and disregarded the dynamic approach, which is very useful in real-world applications. In this context, the present article offers a literature review of the dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP). First, a taxonomy of the reviewed papers is proposed based on the problem formulation current trends (related to the problem type, planning phase, planning approach, number of facilities, number of floors, number of departments, space consideration, department shape, department dimensions, department area, and materials handling configuration); the mathematical modeling approach (regarding the type of model, type of objective function, type of constraints, nature of market demand, type of data, and distance metric), and the considered solution approach. Then, the extent to which recent research into DFLP has contributed to supply chain sustainability by addressing its three performance dimensions (economic, environmental, social) is described. Finally, some future research guidelines are provided.

Keywords: facility layout problem; dynamic layout; literature review; mathematical programming; sustainability; supply chain management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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