Selvarajah, Esaignani; Zhang, Rui - In: International Journal of Production Economics 147 (2014) PA, pp. 117-124
In a supply chain, a manufacturer receives jobs from suppliers at distinct time points, and produces and delivers final products to customers in batches. The manufacturer can be modeled as a single machine in the supply chain and the problem can thus be modelled as minimizing the sum of weighted...