We study the operations scheduling problem with delivery deadlines in a three-stage supply chain process consisting of (1) heterogeneous suppliers, (2) capacitated processing centres (PCs), and (3) a network of business customers. The suppliers make and ship semi-finished products to the PCs...

We consider the problem of operations scheduling for a capacitated multi-echelon shipping network with delivery deadlines. Over the network, semi-finished goods are shipped from origins to many demand points through a capacitated network consisting of shipping links and capacitated processing...