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ABSTRACTIf you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing. Poor Richard's Almanac Benjamin Franklin, 1738

AbstractThis paper describes a comprehensive simulation modeling approach to the problem of locating warehousing facilities in a fashion that minimizes the cost associated with operating a multi‐product, multi‐source, multi‐destination distribution system. The digital simulation model presented in the study is derived within an "industrial dynamics" framework, utilizes input from an existing management information system, and employs a number of relatively simple heuristic procedures to analyze various alternative warehousing networks. Simulation results, in terms of the distribution costs associated with various warehouse locations, are presented for cases involving the effect of provision of a 100% service level, the effect of constraining product availability and/or inventory capacities at various warehouses, and the effect of deleting various warehouses from the existing warehouse network.

The no‐intermediate storage flowshop scheduling problem is
investigated. Six algorithms for solving this problem are developed and
evaluated in terms of the quality and efficiency of the solutions they
produce. Comparative test results from the application of these
scheduling algorithms are statistically analysed and discussed.