...Dr Anish Sachdeva, Dr Vishal Sharma and Dr Rajeev Kumar Garg; Sajan T John; R Sridharan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical model for the design of a multi-stage reverse supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-integer linear programming formulation...

... programming and a multi‐agent system to coordinate multi‐plant purchasing activities in order to minimize the total purchasing cost. Findings An integrated linear programming model and multi‐agent approach is perfectly suited to the purchase coordination in multi‐plant organizations in order to achieve...

... focuses particularly on this workstation. In the first stage of the algorithm, an integer linear programming model is used to determine the number of hardboards that will be cut. The model is tested with two different objective functions. In the second stage, a heuristic which takes into account the due...