... process, where one supplier at a time is gradually taken into the exchange while testing the supplier’s behavior. The process consists of an early heuristics sub-process, which gradually switches over to a more advanced intuiting behavioral pattern-matching process. Practical implications Most OM/SCM...

... to sequence the PCBs, taking care of both the objectives. Develops a heuristic for solving the bi‐criteria problem. The proposed method performs better than the existing heuristics for the comparable situation of sequencing in a single machine job‐shop. n The total number of components...