Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author´s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better...

Supply Chain Scheduling deals with the coordination of machine and delivery scheduling of two or more supply chain stages. The aim is to improve supply chain performance measured in total logistics costs or the supply chain makespan, for example. However, the potential for improvement has never...

This paper integrates production and outbound distribution scheduling in order to minimize total tardiness. The overall problem consists of two subproblems. The first addresses scheduling a set of jobs on parallel machines with machine-dependent ready times. The second focusses on the delivery...