This paper presents a novel solution heuristic to the General Lotsizing and Scheduling Problem for Parallel production Lines (GLSPPL). The GLSPPL addresses the problem of simultaneously deciding about the sizes and schedules of production lots on parallel, heterogeneous production lines with...

In times of demand shocks, when quantitative forecasting based on historical time series becomes obsolete, the only information about future demand is "advance demand information", i.e. interpreting early customer bookings as an indicator of not yet known demand. This paper deals with a...