Coordination of inbound and outbound transportation schedules with the production schedule


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Koc U., Toptal A., SABUNCUOĞLU İ.

COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, cilt.103, ss.178-192, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 103
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.cie.2016.11.020
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.178-192
  • Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper studies the coordination of production and shipment schedules for a single stage in the supply chain. The production scheduling problem at the facility is modeled as belonging to a single process. Jobs that are located at a distant origin are carried to this facility making use of a finite number of capacitated vehicles. These vehicles, which are initially stationed close to the origin, are also used for the return of the jobs upon completion of their processing. In the paper, a model is developed to find the schedules of the facility and the vehicles jointly, allowing for effective utilization of the vehicles both in the inbound and the outbound. The objective of the proposed model is to minimize the sum of transportation costs and inventory holding costs. Issues related to transportation such as travel times, vehicle capacities, and waiting limits are explicitly accounted for. Inventories of the unprocessed and processed jobs at the facility are penalized.