In the consumer packaged goods industry, usually a large number of final items are produced in a highly automated flow line production system. Florian Seeanner presents a mathematical model which is an improved version of the General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production...

Disassembly is one of the key elements of any processing of recovered products. Be it for repair, remanufacturing, refurbishing, cannibalisation, material recycling, or disposal. Hence, planning the disassembly is important and—with growing amounts of recovered products and need for saving...

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a...

Hierarchische Produktionsplanung -- Unsicherheit in der Planung -- Robuste Optimierung -- Entwicklung eines Modells zur robusten hierarchischen Produktionsplanung -- Fallstudie -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

Einführung -- Materialplanung bei konventioneller und kreislaufgeführter Produktion -- Materialplanung bei externen Produktkreisläufen -- Materialplanung bei internen Produktkreisläufen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Production and Operations Management: Models and Algorithms -- Graphical Modeling of Substitutions and Flexible Bills-of-Materials -- Literature Review -- Efficient Reformulations for Uncapacitated and Capacitated Lot-Sizing with Substitutions and Initial Inventories -- MIP-Based Heuristics for...

Supply Chain Planning and Coordination -- Coordination Mechanisms for Supply Chain Planning -- New Coordination Schemes -- New Coordination Mechanisms -- Computational Tests of Coordination Schemes -- Summary and Outlook

The first edition of Integrated Methods for Optimization was published in January 2007. Because the book covers a rapidly developing field, the time is right for a second edition. The book provides a unified treatment of optimization methods. It brings ideas from mathematical programming (MP),...

This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries. In almost all process industries, there are situations where products have short/long setup times, and the setup of the product and its subsequent production are carried over, across consecutive periods. The...