No-wait re-entrant robotic flowshops are widely used in the electronic industry, such as PCB and semiconductor manufacturing. In such an industry, cyclic production policy is often used due to large lot size and simplicity of implementation. This paper addresses cyclic scheduling of a no-wait...

Digital commodities are delivered worldwide through a Global Supply Chain Network of providers. These are usually interconnected via Local Supply Chain Networks, based around Internet Exchange Points, the physical places where most digital exchanges take place.

The interest in supply chain networks and their analysis as complex systems is rapidly growing. The physical approach to the topic draws on the concept of heterogenous interacting agents. The interaction among agents is considered as a repeated process of orders and production. The dynamics of...

This paper considers coordinated scheduling on parallel identical machines with batch delivery. Jobs are first processed on m parallel and identical machines in the manufacturing facility and then delivered to the customer in batches. There are v identical transporters that can carry up to c...

MRP Theory combines the use of Input–Output Analysis and Laplace transforms, enabling the development of a theoretical background for multi-level, multi-stage production–inventory systems together with their economic evaluation, in particular applying the Net Present Value principle (NPV).