Sawmills are key elements of the forest product industry supply chain, and they play
important economic, social, and environmental roles. Sawmill production planning and …

The Canadian forest products industry has failed to retain its competitiveness in the global
markets because of the under-utilization of its resources. Supply chain optimization models …

This paper proposes a multi-site global optimisation model of blending operations,
alternative routings and order scheduling with a co-production flow. It is performed in a …

This paper studies the scheduling of jobs of different families on parallel machines, where
not all machines are qualified (eligible) to process all job families. Originating from …

Production planning and scheduling for companies with divergent processes, where a
single component can be transformed into several finished products, are challenging as …

We study an integrated process configuration, lot-sizing, and scheduling problem, which
appears in a real production environment in the packaging industry. Products are produced …

This paper proposes an application-oriented model for a coupled process configuration, lot-
sizing and scheduling problem in the molded pulp industry. In this case, products are …

The management of industrial systems is done through different levels, ranging from
strategic (designing the system), to tactical (planning the activities and assigning the …

This paper presents a new decentralized/distributed decision-making (DDM) supply chain
planning model. A supply chain is called decentralized when various decisions are made in …

Production planning in molded pulp packaging companies involves decisions about setting
up appropriately the production process to meet the demands of different products. This …