Tag: assigning customers to warehouses

Pyomo for quadratic assignment problem

No matter if it is the assignment of departments to empty rooms in a building, machines to manufacturing cells, factories to geographical regions, products to racks in a warehouse, sensors to devices, edge computers inside the internet of things network, public transport stations to different zones in a city, you may need to model and […]

Assigning clients to nearest warehouse (in R)

In this post I provide a coding example of how a group of customers can be assigned to one warehouse each, considering a set of fixed warehouses with unlimited capacity. The underlying assumption is that there are no fixed costs and that costs only depend on the euclidean distance between customer and warehouse. Furthermore, no […]