Modeling of the warehouse location
Abstract
Modeling of the warehouse location
Incoming article date: 24.08.2024The work is aimed at developing and testing an algorithm for choosing the location of a new cargo storage warehouse, taking into account stochastic flows of cargo supplies to the warehouse and to consumers from the warehouse. When choosing a warehouse location, the costs that accompany the activities of a logistics company related to the organization of warehousing in the selected location, with the maintenance of the warehouse, storage of cargo, delivery of cargo from suppliers to the warehouse and from the warehouse to consumers are taken into account. The paper proposes an algorithm for solving the problem of choosing the location of a cargo storage warehouse, taking into account the forecast of the dynamics of cargo deliveries to the warehouse and to consumers from the warehouse. A mathematical toolkit is described that allows estimating the dynamics of costs for the organization and operation of a warehouse in conditions of non-stationary flows of incoming and outgoing cargo from a warehouse based on the application of the statistical modeling method. The approbation was carried out. The proposed toolkit has a novelty in terms of accounting for non-stationary flows of incoming and outgoing cargo to the warehouse and real transport routes when choosing the location of the warehouse.
Keywords: warehouse location, dynamics of warehouse costs, statistical modeling, mathematical model, logistics