Aggregate production-distribution planning (APDP) is one of the most critical and strategic process in supply chains. Considering the prevalence of supplier selection and inventory control problems in supply chain management, this paper addresses the economic optimization of supply chain...

Supply chain scheduling is an integrated approach to the production planning and inventory control of systems. The purpose of this paper is to formulate the generalized supply chain scheduling issue in which the objective is to minimize sum of the costs incurred within all of the echelons of...