Many decisions in operations management (OM) belong to the class of Non-deterministic
Polynomial hard problems and thus heuristic search methods have been applied to improve …

Multi-factory production planning and scheduling problems have been increasingly studied
by scholars recently due to market uncertainty, technological trends like Industry 4.0 and …

Increasing environmental, legislative, and social concerns are forcing companies to take a
fresh view of the impact of supply chain operations on environment and society when …

Production scheduling and vehicle routing are two well-studied problems in literature.
Although these supply chain functions are interrelated, they are often solved sequentially …

This article presents a tactical supply chain planning model that can be used to investigate
tradeoffs between cost and environmental degradation including carbon emissions, energy …

With the development of global and decentralised economies, distributed production
emerges in large manufacturing firms. A distributed production model exists with hybrid …

Scheduling problems can be understood in general as the problems of allocating resources
over time to perform a set of tasks being parts of some processes, among which …

Managing perishability may represent a remarkable problem in supply chain management
of a varied set of industries. In fact, perishability can influence, for example, productivity or …

Abstract Information sharing and coordination between the agents of a supply chain are
considered to be an effective strategy for improving its global performance. This paper …

Because of current globalization trend, production has shifted from the single factory
production to multi-factory production network. To become competitive in today's rapidly …