In today's world of global markets and stiff competition in every product along with increasing
consumer demand, it becomes imperative for companies to explore ways to improve their …

In this paper, an extensive review of recently published papers on hybrid flow shop (HFS)
scheduling problems is presented. The papers are classified first according to the HFS …

Items with short lifetimes that are subject to deterioration are important in the business world.
Research has a long tradition in integrating deterioration and value loss effects into …

Using group model building we developed a series of causal loop diagrams identifying the
environmental impacts of ultra-processed food (UPF) systems, and underlying system …

The Flexible flow shop (FFS) is defined as a multi-stage flow shops with multiple parallel
machines. FFS scheduling problem is a complex combinatorial problem which has been …

Purpose–The purpose of the paper is to investigate the limitations and barriers for supply
chain integration that food manufacturers experience and to highlight their planning and …

In fulfilling customers' orders, one of the goals of tactical supply chain planning is to satisfy
the customers in terms of delivery efficiency, delivery quantity accuracy and on-time delivery …

We study a real-world complex hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem arising from a bio-
process industry. There are a variety of constraints to be taken into account, in particular …

Purpose–In recent years there has been an increasing interest in make-to-stock and make-
to-order combined strategies in food manufacturing operations. However, most scholarly …

In the dairy processing, the rapid quality decay of milk-based intermediate mixture to make
and pack restricts productivity and, forces organizations to carefully plan and schedule their …