Background The milk processing sector in the Republic of Croatia faces numerous challenges. It is a distinctly bipolar structure, with some entities resembling the largest milk producers in the EU, while many small and medium-sized dairy farms struggle to remain competitive and achieve further...

This paper considers a dairy industry problem on integrated planning and scheduling a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation is introduced to integrate tactical and operational decisions with uncertain demand and a heuristic approach is proposed to decompose time buckets of the...