A network design model with considering inventories cost from third party logistics perspective

Third party logistics services provider importance are increased in supply chain management continuously. But, few studies have addressed the problem of logistic network design from viewpoint of 3PLs The main objective of this paper is to study the logistics network design problem from 3PLs perspectives with considering inventory costs under the dynamic environment. This paper proposes a nonlinear mixed integer programming model for integrated logistics network design that capacitated facility location-allocation and inventory location problem are taken into account.