The need for sustainable practices in the food supply chain, particularly in the area of energy reduction, is becoming acute. The food industry currently has to contend with multiple competing pressures alongside the new challenges of sustainable production. We applied Institutional Theory to...

A series of approaches is presented to formulate statistical classification problems using integer programming. The formulations attempt to maximize the number of observations that can be properly classified and utilize single function, multiple function and hierarchical multiple function...

Lot sizing is one of the most important and also one of the most difficult problems in production planning. This subject has been studied extensively in the literature. In this article, we consider single-level lot sizing problems, their variants and solution approaches. After introducing...