Integrating Production and Transport Scheduling for Supply Chain Management under Market Uncertainty

摘要

In this work, a novel approach to increase Supply Chain (SC) competitiveness is introduced. The proposed strategy helps to co-ordinate the production/distribution tasks of the nodes embedded in a SC by integrating the plant production scheduling with the transport scheduling to final markets. Uncertainty in the demands is considered and the problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic optimisation approach. The mathematical model looks for the detailed global schedule (production and transport) that maximises the expected benefit. A motivating example is used to illustrate the above strategy.