Guest editorial
Journal Title: Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services - Year 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
We are glad to see the final version of this special issue of Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services (DMMS) on Optimization in Supply Chain Management take shape. It does not come as a surprise that we received a rather heterogeneous batch of submissions concerning different aspects of optimization focusing on applications in supply chain management (SCM). There seems to be no need to introduce the field of SCM here since it has been the focus of researchers and practitioners, for decades. This does not imply that there is no potential or no need for further improvement. With advances in hardware or algorithms, models have become more integrated over the years and there is no end to this development in sight. The mission of this special issue is to present new approaches on advancing optimization techniques with applications in SCM. It presents three papers in order to do so.
Authors and Affiliations
Dirk Briskorn, Michael Pinedo, Fred Glover, Florian Jaehn
Three-Machine Flowshop Scheduling Problem to Minimize Total Completion Time with Bounded Setup and Processing Times
The three-machine flowshop scheduling problem to minimize total completion time is studied where setup times are treated as separate from processing times. Setup and processing times of all jobs on all machines are unkno...
Corrigendum to ”Neighbourhood Properties in Some Single Processor Scheduling Problem with Variable Efficiency and Additional Resources”
Amendment to [Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services, vol. 5 (1–2), 2011, pp. 5–17
Coordinating Contracts in SCM: A Review of Methods and Literature
Supply chain coordination through contracts has been a burgeoning area of re- search in recent years. In spite of rapid development of research, there are only a few structured analyses of assumptions, methods, and appli...
Balancing Bilinearly Interfering Elements
Many decisions in various fields of application have to take into account the joined effects of two elements that can interfere with each other. This happens for example in Medicine (synergic or antagonistic drugs ), in...
Corrigendum to ”Extended Model Formulation of the Proportional Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem with Lost Demand Costs”
Amendment to Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services, vol. 5 (1–2), 2011, pp. 49–56