Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Time and Job Splitting: Hospital Catering Case Study

This paper aims to study a real case of an optimization problem derived from hospital supply chain. The present work focuses on developing operational decision support models and algorithms for production process scheduling in catering. addressed system is considered as flexible job shop system. objective minimize the total flow time. A novel mathematical model two metaheuristics multi-product multi-stage food processes are developed. These methods have proven their effectiveness operations allowed significant improvements performance studied