... Publishing Limited 2011 Supply chain management Production planning Production scheduling Problem solving Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems are information systems suited for decisions where simple planning methods cannot adequately address complex trade-offs between...

... Production scheduling Transport management Programming and algorithm theory While in the past research mainly concentrated on static variants of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) in which all requests are known in advance and no uncertainty exists, increasing interest in dynamic VRPs can...

... in the study. The results reveal that the unique nature of the manufacturing organisation favours short‐run production scheduling over a proposed long‐run production scheduling policy. This article also presents the application of a decision support system (DSS) to aid in production scheduling...