Chen, Zhi-Long; Vairaktarakis, George L. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 4, pp. 614-628
of production and distribution operations. In this model, a set of jobs (i.e., customer orders) are first processed in a … investigate the possible benefit of using the proposed integrated model relative to a sequential model where production and … distribution operations are scheduled sequentially and separately. Computational tests show that in many cases a significant …