One of the most important factors in implementing supply chain management is to efficiently control the physical flow of the supply chain. Due to its importance, many companies are trying to develop efficient methods to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. In various methods, cross-docking is considered a good method to reduce inventory and improve responsiveness to various customer...

In this chapter, an integrated production and transportation scheduling model is proposed. This model is based on multi-item capacitated lot sizing and facility location type models. The objective of the integrated model is to minimize the total production and transportation cost. The integrated model is solved by Lagrangian decomposition method and the decomposed two sub-problems can be solved...

This paper investigates a three-stage supply chain scheduling problem in the application area of aluminium production. Particularly, the first and the third stages involve two factories, i.e., the extrusion factory of the supplier and the aging factory of the manufacturer, where serial batching machine and parallel batching machine respectively process jobs in different ways. In the second stag...

in this paper, the problem of lot sizing, scheduling and delivery of several items in a two-stage supply chain over a finite planning horizon is studied. single supplier via a flexible flow line production system (ffl) produces several items and delivers them directly to an assembly facility. based on basic period (bp) strategy, a new mixed zero-one nonlinear programming model has been develope...

Managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. Adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in SCM. Therefore, using certain Information Systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. Pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...

Managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. Adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in SCM. Therefore, using certain Information Systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. Pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...

With recent advances in Information Technologies (IT), the research and practice of supply-chain information sharing has a direct impact on the production scheduling and inventory control. However, few investigations focused on the impact of supply-chain information sharing on product and process quality. Furthermore, it is still not clear how and what information should be shared/used, and how...

Forecasts play a key role in the management of the supply chain. In most organisations such forecasts form part of an information system on which other functions such as scheduling, resource planning and marketing depend. Forecast accuracy is, therefore, an important component in the delivery of an effective supply chain. Typically, the forecasts are produced by integrating managerial judgment ...

Addressing demand uncertainty is a research focus in supply chain management in recent years. In this paper, a new postponement strategy is applied. Postponement has been appreciated recently, especially in the manufacturing period of realizing mass customization. It has also been much used to respond to the demand uncertainty and usually considered in the planning period. However, the decision...

In February 2016 the Dagstuhl Seminar 16062 explored the needs of the semiconductor industry for better planning and scheduling approaches at the supply chain level and the requirements for information systems to support the approaches. The seminar participants also spent time identifying the core elements of a conceptual reference model for planning and control of semiconductor manufacturing s...