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

DOI10.1287/MNSC.27.3.336MaRDI QIDQ3901282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

theoryheuristic algorithmscomputational studydeterministic demandrandom test problemscomparison of algorithmsinfinite planning horizonproduction and distributionempirical comparisonsassembly networksimultaneous schedulingarborescence networkheuristic techniqueminimization of total inventory costsmulti-echelon structuresproduction- distribution scheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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