We study conflict and cooperation issues arising in a supply chain where a manufacturer makes products which are shipped to customers by a distributor. The manufacturer and the distributor each has an ideal schedule, determined by cost and capacity considerations. However, these two schedules...

1. Introduction -- 2. Solution Methods for Supply Chain Scheduling Problems -- 3. Integrated Production and Outbound Distribution Scheduling: Offline Problems -- 4. Integrated Production and Outbound Distribution Scheduling: Online Problems -- 5. Coordinated Product Pricing and Scheduling...

We consider a supply chain planning problem via efficient cross-docking for oilfield services industry. The problem is motivated from a major oilfield services company in North America. In a typical supply chain setup of this industry, the companies ship raw materials to an international...

We study a supply planning problem in a manufacturing system with two stages. The first stage is a remanufacturer that supplies two closely-related components to the second (manufacturing) stage, which uses each component as the basis for its respective product. The used products are recovered...