Location of Capacity Completion Centers in Distribution Systems with Heterogeneous Vehicle Fleet

An important group of operations taking place in distribution parts of logistics chains is the completion of consignments. It is usually necessary to decide in which warehouse the completion of consignments will take place if distribution systems contain several warehouses. The decision of the place of completion is influenced by location of the required items in individual warehouses and by quantity of the required items in the warehouses. The presented paper deals with the problem of location of multiple completion centres with limited capacity in the conditions of a distribution system containing several warehouses, with stored items divided into several size categories. It is possible to store items of the same size in several warehouses and a vehicle fleet is heterogeneous. The problem is conceived as an optimization problem, which is solved by the methods of mathematical programming. When creating a mathematical model, the knowledge from the field of transport and location tasks is used. A computational experiment will be performed with the proposed model, and it will be performed for several numbers of warehouses to be completion.