modernization. As a result, the dairy industry needs to improve its operational efficiencies by implementing effective optimization … techniques. Conventional and emerging optimization techniques have already gained momentum in the dairy industry. This study …'s objective was to explore the optimization techniques developed for or implemented in the dairy supply chain (DSC) and to …

points of the supply chain, which in turn can result in possible reduction of inventory. In this paper an optimization model …

complexity induced by their integration within optimization models. The material presented in this work has been retrieved … efforts dedicated by the OR community to the integration of human factors into logistics and manufacturing systems. A focus is … programming techniques used to integrate human factors into optimization models. Finally, a number of gaps in the literature are …