This article focuses on the integration of order batching and picker scheduling decisions while taking into account two objectives that have been considered in literature, namely minimization both total travel time to collect all items makespan pickers. integrated problem not only occurs naturally wave picking systems which latest orders becomes key performance metric, but also arises when ther...

We are designing an operating system based on Inferno, which central­ izes everything on a machine we call the PC. Terminals connect to it through the internet to export local devices and viewers and programs wrapped in Styx file servers. The problem this approach faces is that Styx behaves badly for high latency links, no matter what the bandwidth is because of the RPC round-trip time accumula...

This paper studies a general two-stage scheduling problem, in which jobs of different importance are processed by one first-stage processor and then, in the second stage, the completed jobs need to be batch delivered to various pre-specified destinations in one of a number of available transportation modes. Our objective is to minimize the sum of weighted job delivery time and total transportat...

Although the supply chain management literature is extensive, the benefits and challenges of coordinated decision making within supply chain scheduling models have not been studied. We consider a variety of scheduling, batching and delivery problems that arise in an arborescent supply chain where a supplier makes deliveries to several manufacturers, who also make deliveries to customers. The ob...

This paper develops Order Acceptance for an Integrated Production-Distribution Problem in which Batch Delivery is implemented. The aim of this problem is to coordinate: (1) rejecting some of the orders (2) production scheduling of the accepted orders and (3) batch delivery to maximize Total Net Profit. A Mixed Integer Programming is proposed for the problem. In addition, a hybrid meta-heuristic...