“…Main processes and decisions are: procurement, production planning and scheduling, demand management and forecasting, inventory control, customers demand allocation, simultaneous facility location and demand allocation (the so-called location-allocation decisions), transport planning, etc. (Beamon, 1998;Li et al, 2006;Dreyer et al, 2009;Manzini and Bindi, 2009;Viau et al, 2009;Manzini, 2012a).…”