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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Production Research Année : 2016

Designing Self-Storage Warehouses with Customer Choice

Yeming Gong
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René de Koster
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Self-storage warehousing is a rapidly growing industry where consumers or companies can rent storage space for personal or company use, over a certain horizon. This paper addresses the question of how to design the facilities so that revenue can be maximized over a nite horizon, considering multiple demand requirements with respect to size, pricing, location within the facility, climate control, security, or outside access, among others. Using a customer choice model to specify the probability of purchase for each fare product as a function of the set of fare products offered, we propose methods to design self-storage warehouses while allowing different customer choice behaviors. We model the problem as a mixed-integer program and solve it using column generation and branch-and-price algorithms. In addition, we study the impact of re-layout and methods to modify facility layout, since self-storage facilities are relatively fexible in layout and individual storage compartments can be adapted to changes in demand. We validate our model using the data of four self-storage warehouses, and show our method can improve the expected revenue by nearly 11% on average for these cases.
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hal-02313369 , version 1 (11-10-2019)

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Shuyu Zhou, Yeming Gong, René de Koster. Designing Self-Storage Warehouses with Customer Choice. International Journal of Production Research, 2016, 54 (10), pp.3080-3104 P. ⟨hal-02313369⟩

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