Optimizing Subindustry Marketing Organizations: A Network Analysis Approach

Stephen W. Fuller, Paul Randolph and Darwin Klingman

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1976, vol. 58, issue 3, 425-436

Abstract: A technique for solving large-scale mixed-integer plant-location problems is developed and utilized. The plant-location problem is formulated as a minimum-cost-flow network problem and solved with a special purpose network code in conjunction with implicit enumeration. Implicit enumeration reduces the number of plant combinations that need to be examined. The technique was applied to resolve a cotton-ginning subindustry's least-cost organizational adjustment to exogenous factors and involved consideration of short-run plant costs that were piecewise linear with fixed charges, two-levels of variable labor cost, storage costs, and assembly costs.

Date: 1976
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