Under the tide of globalization and mass customization, manufacturer is seeking dynamic outsourcing of some operations to other specialists (i.e. contract manufacturer) in order to improve cost effectiveness of its supply chain. The benefits of outsourcing cannot be realized unless information sharing and coordinated scheduling between independent organizations in a supply chain are well config...

Resource scheduling is a critical step in the management of complex logistic networks. The paper proposes an integrated scheduling and simulation approach for dynamic resource allocation in complex transportation logistics. An example application, specific to the maritime logistics of the chemical supply chain, is discussed in the paper, along with preliminary testing of the system by industria...

In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency of a supply chain system, cross docking is one of the most important strategies of warehousing for consolidation shipments from different suppliers to different customers. Products are collected from suppliers by inbound trucks and then moved to customers by outbound trucks through cross dock. Scheduling of trucks plays important role in the cros...

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-product single-vendor single-buyer supply chain problem is studied under green vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy based on the economic production quantity (EPQ) model. To bring the model closer to real-world supply chain, four constraints of model including backordering cost, number of orders, production budget and warehouse space are considered stochasti...

In the last decade, theory of constraint application in project management lead to make a new approach for project scheduling and control as a critical chain. In this paper, a multi-objective optimization model for multi-project scheduling on critical chain is investigated. The objectives include time, cost and quality. In order to solve the problem, a Simulated Annealing algorithm is developed...

Optimization issues of scheduling problems have long been examined for more than 50 years. Numerous studies are devoted to the scheduling issues in logistics and supply chain systems. Indeed, scheduling problems of logistics and supply chain systems have a combinatorial nature and thus computational complexity is usually very high. In this regard, this study reviews the existing literature and ...

Mixed-model assembly systems and modular supply chains are enablers to high product variety. However, as variety gets very high, the assembly and supply processes can become very complex. In assembly systems, the complexity may cause human errors and in turn impacts system performance. The complexity also impacts supply chain configuration and inventory control policy. This paper proposes a uni...

This paper addresses the problem of production planning in a divergent lumber production environment. It aims at analyzing operational performance changes by introducing pull production flow control mechanisms into the production part of the lumber supply chain. An agent-based simulation evaluation is performed using an experimentation platform based on a distributed advanced planning and sched...

In the oil supply chain, the refined petroleum products are transported by various transportation modes, such as rail, road, vessel and pipeline. The latter provides one of the safest and cheapest ways to connect production areas to local markets. This paper addresses the operational scheduling of a multi-product tree-like pipeline connecting several refineries to multiple distribution centers ...