Facility Location
Chooses where to open sites to serve customers at the lowest total cost.
Supported rules and limits
Opening a used site incurs fixedCost once; each assigned customer incurs resourceCosts plus resource.cost. Site capacity is aggregate. Encode service radius by eligible site options computed from caller distances. No geospatial distance calculation is implicit. Resource-dependent customer capacity use is supported through requirementsByResource; scalar zero-opening-cost instances can use regret construction and ejection repair.
Version 1.0.0 is a release candidate. Confirm supported rules before integrating.
- Heuristic search; no optimality or infeasibility proof
- Opening a used site incurs fixedCost once; each assigned customer incurs resourceCosts plus resource.cost. Site capacity is aggregate. Encode service radius by eligible site options computed from caller distances. No geospatial distance calculation is implicit.
What you can optimize
- Total cost
- Coverage
- Travel time
Typical applications
- Warehouses
- Retail stores
- Charging hubs
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