Integrated production, inventory, and batch delivery scheduling with due date assignment and two competing agents

• Published in: Naval research logistics Vol. 65; no. 5; pp. 393 - 409
• Main Authors: Yin, Yunqiang, Yang, Yongjian, Wang, Dujuan, Cheng, T.C.E., Wu, Chin‐Chia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Approximation; batch delivery; Batch processing; Completion time; Decision making; Delivery scheduling; due date assignment; Production scheduling; Reagents; scheduling; Sequential scheduling; two agents

This paper considers several integrated production, inventory, and batch delivery scheduling problems on a single machine with due date assignment and two competing agents, each of which seeks to optimize its own performance. All the jobs of the first agent have a common due date, which is a decisio...