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The Tradeoff between Outsourcing and Using More Factories in a Distributed Flow Shop System

Mohammad Mohammadi (mohammadi@khu.ac.ir)
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Mohammad Mohammadi: Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 2017, vol. 51, issue 4, 279-295

Abstract: Simultaneous lot-sizing and scheduling in a distributed flow shop has been considered in this paper. Number of factories is a parameter and it is not necessary to use all factories. Outsourcing is the other realistic assumption of this paper. In other words, the tradeoff between outsourcing and number of utilized factories is discussed in this paper. An exact formulation of the problem has been provided as a mixed integer program. To solve the problem, a heuristic has been developed.

Keywords: Outsourcing; Distributed flow shop; Lot-sizing and scheduling; Assignment; Sequence-dependent. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D24 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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