Production scheduling and vehicle routing are both well-studied problems in literature. A
coordinated approach that does not solve these interrelated problems sequentially improves …

Additive manufacturing–also known as 3D printing–is a manufacturing process that is
attracting more and more interest due to high production rates and reduced costs. This …

This paper considers the integrated scheduling problem of production and delivery on
parallel batch processing machines with non-identical capacities in different locations in …

In today's complex business environment, the optimisation of operational processes is an
essential factor for the survival of organisations. Many companies struggling to maintain …

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) can make mass manufacturing resources more widely
accessible to clients in the form of manufacturing services with their available time slots and …

We consider the on-line business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce supply chain scheduling
problem where customers generate orders on-line that have to be picked from the shelves in …

We study the integrated production and multiple trips vehicle routing problem with time
windows and uncertain travel times involving two phases. The first phase considers …

This paper considers a class of multi-objective production–distribution scheduling problem
with a single machine and multiple vehicles. The objective is to minimize the vehicle delivery …

This paper considers an integrated scheduling problem in an e-commerce supply chain. The
supply chain consists of heterogeneous suppliers, consumer-goods manufacturers that offer …

Parallel machine scheduling is one of the most common studied problems in recent years,
however, this classic optimization problem has to achieve two conflicting objectives, ie …