The effect of ignoring routes when locating depots

摘要: Abstract In physical distribution the location of depots and vehicle routes are interdependent problems, but they usually treated independently. Here, we evaluate effect ignoring routeing when locating by using a two stage process (location routeing). Using data from standard it is shown that best solution after does not necessarily generate lowest cost stage. This feature found both locations obtained variety methods compared, single method evaluated for different numbers depots. A sensible way to determine combination used in proposed.