Heuristic Techniques for Simultaneous Scheduling of Production and Distribution in Multi-Echelon Structures: Theory and Empirical Comparisons

DOI10.1287/mnsc.27.3.336zbMath0453.90044OpenAlexW1998962961MaRDI QIDQ3901282

Jack F. Williams

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.27.3.336

zbMATH Keywords

heuristic algorithmscomputational studytheorycomparison of algorithmsdeterministic demandrandom test problemsinfinite planning horizonproduction and distributionempirical comparisonsassembly networksimultaneous schedulingarborescence networkheuristic techniqueminimization of total inventory costsmulti-echelon structuresproduction- distribution scheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Production models (90B30) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Dynamic programming (90C39) Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.) (68Q60)

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