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Optimizing Subindustry Marketing Organizations: A Network Analysis Approach

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  • Stephen W. Fuller
  • Paul Randolph
  • Darwin Klingman

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A technique for solving large-scale mixed-integer plant-location problems is developed and utilized. The plant-location problem is formulated as a minimum-cost-flow network problem and solved with a special purpose network code in conjunction with implicit enumeration. Implicit enumeration reduces the number of plant combinations that need to be examined. The technique was applied to resolve a cotton-ginning subindustry's least-cost organizational adjustment to exogenous factors and involved consideration of short-run plant costs that were piecewise linear with fixed charges, two-levels of variable labor cost, storage costs, and assembly costs.

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  • Stephen W. Fuller & Paul Randolph & Darwin Klingman, 1976. "Optimizing Subindustry Marketing Organizations: A Network Analysis Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 58(3), pages 425-436.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:58:y:1976:i:3:p:425-436.
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