This paper presents a new decision-making problem of a fair optimization with respect to the two equally important conflicting objective functions: cost and customer service level, in the presence of supply chain disruption risks. Given a set of customer orders for products, the decision maker...

This paper deals with the optimal selection and protection of part suppliers and order quantity allocation in a supply chain with disruption risks. The protection decisions include the selection of suppliers to be protected against disruptions and the allocation of emergency inventory of parts...

A mixed integer programming approach is proposed for a long-term, integrated scheduling of material manufacturing, material supply and product assembly in a customer driven supply chain. The supply chain consists of three distinct stages: manufacturer/supplier of product-specific materials...

This paper presents a time-indexed integer programming formulation for scheduling dependent jobs executed by a team of workers in an area contaminated with radio-active or chemical materials. The dynamics of the harmful factor and the norms of organism recovery imply that each work period for a...

The problem of allocation of orders for custom parts among suppliers in make to order manufacturing is formulated as a single- or multi-objective mixed integer program. Given a set of customer orders for products, the decision maker needs to decide from which supplier to purchase custom parts...