Motivated by the advantage of just-in-time philosophy, zero-inventory is common in many industries, especially the ones that need fast response with a short lifespan. Accordingly, this paper focuses on coordinated production scheduling and distribution operation problems considering DeJong’s...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Rescheduling on identical parallel machines in the presence of machine breakdowns -- Chapter 3 Parallel-machine rescheduling with job rejection in the presence of job unavailability -- Chapter 4 Rescheduling with controllable processing times and job rejection...