This paper deals with multi-factory production scheduling problems which consist of a number of factories. Each factory consists of various machines and is capable of performing various operations. Some factories may produce intermediate products and supply to other factories for assembly...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors, such as the different strategies adopted and the size of the company, that have a significant determining impact on the financial performance of companies in extreme circumstances. Design/methodology/approach – The research...

In recent years, food supply chains have faced increased quality risk, caused by the extended global supply chain and increased consumer demands on quality and safety. Given the concern regarding quality sustainability in the food supply chain, much attention is being paid to continuous planning...

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a genetic algorithm (GA)‐based process knowledge integration system (GA‐PKIS) for generalizing a set of nearly optimal fuzzy rules in quality enhancement based on the extracted fuzzy association rules in a supply chain network....