As a part of the Analytics and Insights team at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Anuj specializes in supply chain management, operation management, and optimization. He has worked on various supply chain and manufacturing domain projects. He has a PhD in industrial engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Anuj has worked on applying various meta-heuristics and fuzzy systems ...

One of the main issues on task planning of the enterprises with several production sites is how they can reassign tasks when a part of the supply chain is stopped. In this case, a good re-schedule, involving parts from supply chains from other sites, could imply to reduce overall costs. In this paper, we propose a cooperative system to re-schedule a network chain. The algorithm proposed is desc...

McGill’s RedAgent, the winner of the 2003 Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario is examined. Supply chain management (SCM), the TAC SCM game and RedAgent’s unique market-based approach are introduced and described. RedAgent’s internal PC allocation market is analyzed, drawing comparisons between it and the class of scheduling problems. The paper concludes with som...

This paper locates an area of research in Supply Chain Management to apply the findings from the author’s research into the decision-making behaviour of humans in production scheduling. The focus is on theoretical constructs for modelling the knowledge-based activities associated with persons managing a supply chain. The aim of this paper is to bring to a knowledge-management audience prelimina...

Some dynamic supply chain problems are instances of a class of distributed optimization problems that TÆMS and other intelligent agents were made to address. In this paper we define a discrete distributed dynamic supply chain management problem and specify how TÆMS agents, equipped with new coordination mechanisms, automate and manage the supply chain. The agents increase the level of flexibili...

Supply chain network design attempts to define the best supply chain configuration that enables an organization to maximize its long-term economic performance. Typically, the decisions cover three planning levels (Anthony, 1965; Bertrand, 2003; Fleischmann et al., 2002; Manzini et al., 2008): • Long-term planning (three to five years): Decisions of this level are called strategic decisions and ...

In this paper, we study a supply chain scheduling problem that simultaneously considers production scheduling and product delivery.  jobs have to be scheduled on a single machine and delivered to  customers for further processing in batches. The objective is to minimize the sum of the total weighted number of tardy jobs and the delivery costs. In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm (HA...