Through the lens of supply chain management, integrating process planning decisions and scheduling plans becomes an issue of great challenge and importance. Dealing with the problem paves the way to devising operation schedules with minimum makespan; considering the flexible process sequences, it can be viewed as a fundamental tool for achieving the scheme, too. To deal with this integration, t...

The purpose of supply chain scheduling is to be able find an optimized plan and strategy so as optimize the benefits entire chain. This paper proposes a method for processing tightly coordinated task problems based on improved Double Deep Timing Differential Neural Network (DDTDN) algorithm. Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) modeling state characteristics action problem realized, transform in...

Production decisions in a manufacturing supply chain are no longer driven by manual systems based on instinct and experience. They are regulated interactions between analysts, production managers and their collective manipulation of policies within the production information system. This paper studies the demand behavior in manufacturing supply chains and its relationships to the logic of produ...

In the petroleum supply chain, oil refined products are often delivered to distribution centers by pipelines since they provide the most reliable and economical mode of transportation over large distances. This paper addresses the optimal scheduling of a complex pipeline network with multiple branching lines. The main challenge is to find the optimal sequence and time of product injections/deli...

We focus on a three-stage supply chain problem for fast moving consumer goods including a supplier, a manufacturer and customers. There are different orders over identical cycles, to be processed in production site. The problem is to find a joint cyclic schedule of raw material procurement and job scheduling minimized the total cost comprised of raw material ordering cost and holding cost, prod...

In this work, we propose a hybrid simulation optimization approach that addresses the problem of supply chain management. We formulated the problem as a mathematical model which minimizes the summation of production cost, transportation cost, inventory holding and shortage costs, subject to capacity and inventory balance constraints and propose a hybrid approach combining mathematical programmi...

In today’s supply chain, the technology of RFID is become significantly important. Many researches have been published several articles over RFID. In this research, we have examined the major challenges, which faces by companies during implementation phase as well we also discuss the fruitful benefits of this technology’s blessings. RFID is consider as a backbone for information sharing process...