A capacitated facility location-allocation problem with location risks: A case study for military weapon allocation

This work introduces a mathematical model for solving the multi-product capacitated facility location allocation problem with location risks. The model allocates quantities of various product types to a set of candidate locations while minimizing total transportation and setup costs as well as the risk associated with candidate locations. The mentioned risk emerges from allocating the weapons for other military formations, thus becoming more vulnerable to attacks. A border city weapon allocation problem of Turkish Land Forces (containing 81 nodes) is solved to test the model. It is determined that the mathematical model solves the problem with minimum cost/risk so it can be used for the critical decision making processes during homeland defense issues.