Decision Models for Industrial Plant Location Planning


Ilona Lovasi




In this paper a general location model of an industrial enterprise it formulated on the basis of mixed-integer linear optimization. The structure of the is typical for a firm searching for the optimal location of its working units, while the goal is the maximum profit. The model is formulated so as to connect several scopes of activity (investment, production supplies, sales, transport) of an enterprise with the location problem, and to be computable.