Motivated by the advantage of just-in-time philosophy, zero-inventory is common in many industries, especially the ones that need fast response with a short lifespan. Accordingly, this paper focuses on coordinated production scheduling and distribution operation problems considering DeJong’s...

Purpose: Medical resources scheduling affects the medical institution’s operation cost, customer satisfaction and medical service quality. Therefore, a lean arrangement of medical resources order and shipment is quite necessary and important. In this paper, we propose two optimal models for...

This paper investigates the production scheduling problems of allocating resources and sequencing jobs in the seru production system (SPS). As a new-type manufacturing mode arising from Japanese production practices, seru production can achieve efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness...