2A1 ANT-COLONY BASED OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR DISTRIBUTION CENTRE ALLOCATION PROBLEM

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In fast changing global environment, quick and efficient delivery of goods to customers has been seen as an added advantage for the business to attract more customers and further expand the business. Proper arrangement of distribution centres (DCs) can have a long lasting effect in providing good customer service. Improper or unbalanced allocation of customers can lead to under or over utilization of facilities. Lead time or transit time to deliver goods to the customers can be an important parameter in measuring the performance of a DC in supply chain. In this paper, DC allocation problem are discussed with the objective of minimising the transit time to serve ease customers. An ant-colony based optimisation technique is presented to decide the balanced arrangement of DCs. This will help in deciding the set of customer-locations which can be allocated to each DC to reduce the degree of imbalance. Further, the effectiveness of the approach is tested on the real-life problem adopted from the literature.
2009-07-04