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Military Logistics Consolidation Center Location Problem : Modeling and Analysis

군 통합 물류센터의 최적 위치 결정

  • Sim, Seungbae (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses) ;
  • Jang, Jihong (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses) ;
  • Jung, Hosang (Graduate School of Logistics, Inha University) ;
  • Jeong, Bongju (Department of Information and Industrial Systems Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2013.03.28
  • Accepted : 2013.09.02
  • Published : 2013.12.15
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Abstract

In Korea military (KM), various military supplies are distributed to individual military units via three different multi-tier supply networks owned and operated by army, navy, and air force, respectively. Under the current supply networks, the chances for the occurrence of delayed supply, undersupply, and oversupply increase, and supply redundancy also can become a problem. Thus, KM is now trying to improve its current multi-tier supply networks by constructing logistics consolidation centers. Private companies operate logistics consolidation centers to effectively manage various types of inventories before delivering them to final customers. In this paper, we newly propose a mathematical model for building the optimized military supply network considering adopting the military logistics consolidation centers. Based on the real situation of KM, the proposed model was validated in terms of its feasibility, and it seems that the outcome (the location of the military logistics consolidation centers) of the proposed model can be one of the good alternatives for KM.

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