Chen, Zhi-Long; Vairaktarakis, George L. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 4, pp. 614-628
Motivated by applications in the computer and food catering service industries, we study an integrated scheduling model of production and distribution operations. In this model, a set of jobs (i.e., customer orders) are first processed in a processing facility (e.g., manufacturing plant or...