Analysis and algorithms for coordinated scheduling of parallel machine manufacturing and 3PL transportation

Kunpeng Li, Appa Iyer Sivakumar and Viswanath Kumar Ganesan

International Journal of Production Economics, 2008, vol. 115, issue 2, 482-491

Abstract: Nowadays, it is popular to outsource transportation and distribution of finished products to third-party logistics (3PL) providers in many industries. In order to shorten the response time from order receipt to delivery, and also to improve on-time delivery accuracy, the decision of manufacturing scheduling and transportation scheduling should consider the constraints between manufacturing and transportation. In this paper, we study a coordinated scheduling problem of parallel machine assembly manufacturing and multi-destination transportation in the make-to-order (MTO) consumer electronics supply chain (CESC). By considering the constraints between parallel machine assembly and 3PL transportation, the overall problem is decomposed into a parallel machine scheduling sub-problem and a 3PL transportation sub-problem. The 3PL transportation problem is proved to be NP-complete. Heuristic algorithms are proposed to solve the parallel machine assembly scheduling problem.

Keywords: 3PL; Transportation; Assembly; Supply; chain; Coordinated; scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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