ISBN: 978-981-18-5852-9 DOI: 10.18178/wcse.2022.04.049
Identifying Warehouse Location: A Case Study of an e-Commerce Firm
Abstract— The purpose of this study is to identify a central warehouse location of an e-commerce firm in Thailand by considering the lowest parcel transportation cost. Shipment and location data of all warehouse spokes were used for calculation with two methods: center of gravity and load distance. It was found that the location identified with load distance method had the lowest transportation cost, 17.86% lower than that of existing location.
Index Terms— warehouse location, center of gravity, load distance.
Piya Charoendee
Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand
Detcharat Sumrit
Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand
Assadej Vanichchinchai
Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand
Suwat Janyapoon
College of Logistics and Supply Chain, Sripatum University, Thailand
Cite: Piya Charoendee, Detcharat Sumrit, Assadej Vanichchinchai, Suwat Janyapoon, " Identifying Warehouse Location: A Case Study of an e-Commerce Firm, " WCSE 2022 Spring Event: 2022 9th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, pp. 412-419, Sanya, China, April 15-18, 2022.