hazards in different areas have different effects and consequences. nowadays considering industries vital conditions, it seems necessary to boost organizations confronting uncertainties and risks. one solution for reducing these risks, is increasing agility, stability and flexibility in production process. this study tries to increase organization capabilities in supply chain hazards handing, u...

In traditional scheduling problems, most literature assumes that the processing time of a job is fixed. However, there are many situations where the processing time of a job depends on the starting time or the position of the job in a sequence. In such situations, the actual processing time of a job may be more or less than its normal processing time if it is scheduled later. This phenomenon is...

This paper concerns the single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling with sequence-dependent setup times, usually referred as 1|sij | ∑ wjTj . In this NP-hard problem, each job has an associated processing time, due date and a weight. For each pair of jobs i and j, there may be a setup time before starting to process j in case this job is scheduled immediately after i. The objective is to...

We present a method for setting release times for jobs with due dates in a stochastic production flow line for which the sequence of jobs has been determined. Unlike other approaches to this problem, ours considers a transient situation. Thus, the flow line will typically contain work in process (WIP), that is, jobs that have been previously released to the system. Our goal is to develop a job ...

One of the cost-intensive issues in managing warehouses is the order picking problem which deals with the retrieval of items from their storage locations in order to meet customer requests. Many solution approaches have been proposed in order to minimize traveling distance in the process of order picking. However, in practice, customer orders have to be completed by certain due dates in order t...

Many optimization problems in the industrial engineering world, particularly in manufacturing systems, are very complex in nature and difficult to solve by conventional optimization techniques. The use of formal approaches is frequently limited owing to the complexity of the models or algorithms. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for large scale single machine weighted tardiness probl...

To test the hypothesis that participation in the School Breakfast Program by low-income children is associated with improvements in standardized achievement test scores and in rates of absence and tardiness, children in grades 3 through 6 were studied in the Lawrence, Mass, public schools, where the School Breakfast Program was begun at the start of the second semester 1986-1987 school year. Th...

In this paper, we study a resource-constrained project scheduling problem in which a set of project activities have due dates. If the finish time of each one of these activities is not equal to its due date, an earliness or a tardiness cost exists for each tardy or early period. The objective is to minimize the sum of discounted weighted earliness-tardiness penalty costs of these activities. Sc...