Scheduling

Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multiple criteria. However, this extension has still left a gap between the classical multi-criteria approaches and some real-life problems in which not all jobs contribute to the evaluation of each criterion.

Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author´s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better than those of classic decomposition approaches which break down the overall problem and solve the subproblems successively. The scope is then broadened to include the machine and transportation scheduling problems of two and more companies at consecutive supply chain stages. The last part of this dissertation addresses supply chain contracting issues.

Scheduling properly can make or break your production. The truth is you don’t need more days, you need better planning. Scheduling efficiency and flexibility have joined with technology to help you work smarter, not longer. Name your favorite TV show. Name your favorite movie. We can name the system that scheduled it. Movie Magic.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2018, held in Vancouver, Canada, in May 2018. The 7 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from12 submissions. The papers cover topics in the fields of design and evaluation of new scheduling approaches. They focus on several interesting problems in resource management and scheduling.

This book provides a theoretical and application-oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems in advanced planning and computer systems.

Billions of dollars are tied up in the inventories of manufacturing companies which cause large (interest) costs. A small decrease of the inventory and/or production costs without reduction of the service level can increase the profit substantially. Especially in the case of scarce capacity, efficient production schedules are fundamental for short delivery time and on-time delivery which are important competitive priorities. To support decision makers by improving their manufacturing resource planning system with appropriate methods is one of the most of production planning. interesting challenges The following chapters contain new models and new solution strategies which may be helpful for decision makers and for further research in the areas of production planning and operations research. The main subject is on lotsizing and scheduling. The objectives and further characteristics of such problems can be inferred from practical need. Thus, before an outline is given, we consider the general objectives of lotsizing and scheduling and classify the most important characteristics of such problems in the following sections.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.