Synchronized scheduling of assembly and multi-destination air-transportation in a consumer electronics supply chain

Synchronized scheduling of assembly and multi-destination air-transportation in a consumer electronics supply chain

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Article ID: iaor20052908
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 43
Issue: 13
Start Page Number: 2671
End Page Number: 2685
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: organization, production, scheduling
Abstract:

The paper studies the problem of synchronizing air transportation and assembly manufacturing to achieve accurate delivery with minimized cost in a consumer electronics supply chain. The motivation for this study came from a major computer manufacturer in a consumer electronics industry that faces challenges in the final stages of delivery of a supply chain. The synchronization problem is decomposed and formulated as two sub-problems, i.e. a multi-destination air transportation allocation problem and an assembly-scheduling problem. The first sub-problem is formulated and solved as an integer linear programming problem. For the assembly-scheduling problem, two solution methodologies using the concepts of forward and backward scheduling are presented. Computational results indicate that the proposed methodologies can achieve considerable cost reduction compared with the existing methodology applied in industry.

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