INTEGRATING PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION SCHEDULING DECISIONS BETWEEN TWO GEOGRAPHICALLY SEPARATED PLANTS
The integration of scheduling transportation between an intermediate plant and a finishing plant with the simultaneous scheduling of short-run production at these plants represents a challenging problem. This paper proposes a multi-echelon plant-scheduling model to deal with this problem. The proposed optimization model considers all the cost and production capacity issues involved while developing a cost minimizing integrated schedule. Logistics trade-offs requiring consideration are examined, regardless of whether a firm models them explicitly, or simply weighs them implicitly. Managerial implications of both the proposed model and the logistics trade-offs inherent in this scheduling problem are then considered.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Miller, T
- de Matta, R
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 111-146
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Serial:
- Journal of Business Logistics
- Volume: 24
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Limited
- ISSN: 0197-6729
- EISSN: 2158-1592
- Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2158-1592
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Business practices; Factories; Industrial plants; Logistics; Manufacturing; Optimization; Production control; Schedules and scheduling
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00964655
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 1 2003 12:00AM