Supply Chain Scheduling: Integrated machine scheduling and vehicle routing

Christian Alexander Ullrich

Chapter Chapter 3 in Issues in Supply Chain Scheduling and Contracting, 2014, pp 17-52 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Increasing pressure on global markets forces companies as well as entire supply chains to capitalize rigorously on saving potentials. For example, just-in-time and just-insequence concepts are widely used to reduce logistics expenditures which often represent over 30% of the total costs of a product (Thomas and Griffin, 1996). Such approaches, however, involve a need to comply with due dates since tardy deliveries may cause the recipients to struggle to meet their own due dates. Manufacturers of special purpose machines, for example, are not able to assemble a machine until their suppliers release the required components such as motors, cases, and control modules. A similar problem arises in modular construction. Warehouses or parking decks cannot be built until special industry doors, concrete modules, and steel components have been supplied. The tardiness of a single component can disrupt the entire supply chain. Rearrangement or interruption of production schedules, idle time, tardiness penalties, and unnecessarily high inventories sometimes drive up costs considerably. However, justin-time approaches are pointless if they incur high transportation costs in an attempt to prevent such situations. Cost-efficient suppliers that rarely exceed due dates are hence essential in just-in-time environments and hold an enormous competitive advantage.

Keywords: Genetic Algorithm; Completion Time; Performance Ratio; Processing Site; Total Tardiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-03769-7_3

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