Supply chain scheduling
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Supply chain scheduling
zbMATH Open document ID: 1498.90002
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90374-9
author: Nicholas G. Hall
author: Zhi-Long Chen
publication date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
review text: The book is a volume out of a series. The authors are both from USA and the present book is the overview and detailed description of more than 20 years scientific work on this topic. The volume is organized in an introductory part and two main parts, in the introduction all the main concepts and basics of scheduling used are presented (including a five-component description scheme for scheduling problems in supply chains). The first part is for centralized scheduling problems, where a single decision maker tries to balance the parts of the supply chain -- here mainly production and distribution. The second part is for decentralized problems, where concurring decision makers are involved, sometimes cooperating, sometimes concurring with each other. What is the main concept of the book? It concentrates on all scheduling driven problems arising in the area of supply chains, all decisions are concrete planning issues. The book does not discuss management problems on a strategic level, but always on a specific planning level (for a certain time horizon). Once the book deals with the topic of pricing, all other problems do not use methods like marketing or forecast, it is assumed that for the problems a set of data is present or will be present in the process of planning the customer supplies. Also the aspect of vehicle routing (or similar typical delivery problems) is not included in the book -- to concentrate on scheduling, not on delivering optimally. So the book may be interesting for managers, but also for mathematicians and management scientists, all who want to see the scheduling behind the decisions. In the introducing chapters, an overview of typical supply chains is given and the solution methods for typical scheduling problems are described: Some well-known polynomial solutions are stated, like SPT (shortest processing time rule), or EDD (earliest due date rule) for scheduling with due dates. Most of the scheduling problems arising from supply chains are hard t…
reviewed by: Helmut G. Kahlbacher
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68M20
zbMATH DE Number: 7451850
zbMATH Keywords: scheduling problems
zbMATH Keywords: algorithms
zbMATH Keywords: supply chains
zbMATH Keywords: central manager
zbMATH Keywords: concurring decision makers
zbMATH Keywords: game theory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90374-9
OpenAlex ID: W4210523968
published in: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7451850