This study investigates an NP-hard parallel machine scheduling problem, a critical challenge in manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics industries where efficient resource allocation is essential. The issue involves scheduling operations where each task requires an additional resource, with...

The NP-hard problem Material Consumption Scheduling and related problems have been thoroughly studied since the 1980's. Roughly speaking, the problem deals with scheduling jobs that consume non-renewable resources—each job has individual resource demands. The goal is to minimize the makespan....