Article ID: | iaor20141844 |
Volume: | 238 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 130 |
End Page Number: | 142 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Agnetis Alessandro, Aloulou Mohamed Ali, Fu Liang-Liang |
Keywords: | delivery-time analysis, logistics, outsourcing |
In this paper, we consider coordinated production and interstage batch delivery scheduling problems, where a third‐party logistics provider (3PP) delivers semi‐finished products in batches from one production location to another production location belonging to the same manufacturer. A batch cannot be delivered until all jobs of the batch are completed at the upstream stage. The 3PP is required to deliver each product within a time