Minimizing the Total Cost in an Integrated Vendor--Managed Inventory System
Journal of Heuristics
Two Machine Scheduling under Disruptions with Transportation Considerations
Journal of Scheduling
Supply chain scheduling: sequence coordination
Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: International symposium on combinatorial optimization CO'02
Single machine scheduling with controllable release and processing parameters
Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: International symposium on combinatorial optimization CO'02
Order Assignment and Scheduling in a Supply Chain
Operations Research
A branch-and-bound algorithm for single-machine scheduling with batch delivery and job release times
Computers and Operations Research
International Journal of Business Information Systems
The Coordination of Two Parallel Machines Scheduling and Batch Deliveries
COCOON '08 Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
Scheduling with families of jobs and delivery coordination under job availability
Theoretical Computer Science
Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains
Operations Research
Scheduling optimisation for supply chain in networked manufacturing
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Unbounded parallel-batch scheduling with family jobs and delivery coordination
Information Processing Letters
An ant colony optimization algorithm for setup coordination in a two-stage production system
Applied Soft Computing
Coordination in a two-stage production system: Complexity, conflict and cooperation
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Revised Delivery-Time Quotation in Scheduling with Tardiness Penalties
Operations Research
Semi-online two-level supply chain scheduling problems
Journal of Scheduling
A two stage scheduling with transportation and batching
Information Processing Letters
Batching and delivery in semi-online distribution systems
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Tabu search and lower bounds for a combined production-transportation problem
Computers and Operations Research
Single machine batch scheduling with release times and delivery costs
Journal of Scheduling
The complexity of two supply chain scheduling problems
Information Processing Letters
Minimizing maximum tardiness and delivery costs in a batched delivery system
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Although the supply chain management literature is extensive, the benefits and challenges of coordinated decision making within supply chainscheduling 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 objective is to minimize the overall scheduling and delivery cost, using several classical scheduling objectives. This is achieved by scheduling the jobs and forming them into batches, each of which is delivered to the next downstream stage as a single shipment. For each problem, we either derive an efficient dynamic programming algorithm that minimizes the total cost of the supplier or that of the manufacturer, or we demonstrate that this problem is intractable. The total system cost minimization problem of a supplier and manufacturer who make cooperative decisions is also considered. We demonstrate that cooperation between a supplier and a manufacturer may reduce the total system cost by at least 20%, or 25%, or by up to 100%, depending upon the scheduling objective. Finally, we identify incentives and mechanisms for this cooperation, thereby demonstrating that our work has practical implications for improving the efficiency of supply chains.