The large-scale use of electric vehicles provides the strong support for the realization of the
decarbonization in the energy sectors. With the maturity of the carbon trading market, a large …

Production routing and pollution routing problems are two important issues of vehicle routing
problem (VRP) of the supply chain planning system. Both determine an optimum path for the …

This paper studies an NP-hard multi-period production–distribution problem to minimize the
sum of three costs: production setups, inventories and distribution. This problem is solved by …

Many small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) have already
implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution system …

The scheduling literature is extensive, but much of this work is theoretical and does not
capture the complexity of real world systems. Capital goods companies produce products …

Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) technique is widely employed by most
manufacturing companies, even though field applications point out some weaknesses …

Advanced material planning performance: a contextual examination and research agenda |
Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with …

Traditionally, production scheduling is optimised using objective functions based on
punctuality criteria such as earliness and tardiness. However, synchronisation in …

Literature addressing master production scheduling (MPS) typically focuses on the
development of sophisticated MPS methods with the expectation that these methods will …

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic discrete framework to address image morphing
with application to optical flow estimation. We reformulate the problem using a number of …