We consider scheduling issues in different configurations of supply chains. The primary focus is to integrate production and distribution activities in the supply chain in order to optimize the tradeoff between total cost and service performance. The cost may be based on actual expenses such as the expense incurred during the distribution phase, and service performance can be expressed in terms of time based performance measures such as completion times and tardiness. Our goal is to achieve the following objectives: (i) To propose various integrated production-distribution scheduling models that closely mirror practical supply chain operations in some environments…
Author: Pundoor, Guruprasad
Source: University of Maryland
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