For a number of years, researchers have described and analysed the shift from traditional adversarial, 'arm's length' buyer-supplier relationships towards longer term, more cooperative relationships in which buyers and suppliers regard each other more as 'partners'. The supply chain management...

For a number of years, researchers have described and analysed the shift from traditional adversarial, 'arm's length' buyer-supplier relationships towards longer term, more cooperative relationships in which buyers and suppliers regard each other more as 'partners'. The supply chain management...

The present scenario of global economy, the competition is not between individual organisations but between competing supply chains to optimise revenue and reduce the operating cost of supply chain. The areas of Revenue Management and Supply Chain Management represent two fundamental pillars for...

The present scenario of global economy, the competition is not between individual organisations but between competing supply chains to optimise revenue and reduce the operating cost of supply chain. The areas of Revenue Management and Supply Chain Management represent two fundamental pillars for...

The job shop problem is among the class of non-deterministic polynomial time hard combinatorial problems. This research article addresses the problem of static job shop scheduling on the job-based representation and the rule-based representations. The popular search techniques, such as the...

Hybridisation of algorithms to develop efficient solution methods for solving various NP-hard problems has been a practice for the last few years. It can be seen that researchers have tried different permutations and combinations of various exact, heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms to...