Simultaneous Production Scheduling and Vehicle Routing Problems to Minimize Response time

In according to competitive markets in most of commodities, supply chain actors must do better than before by decreasing response time of demands as well as decreasing their costs. On the other hand, coordination of supply chain’s operation can incredibly effect on reduction time and cost. In this paper, we consider a two stage supply chain consist of a manufacturing and a distributer. The problem is determination when and how each demand must be response. According to variant of demands, we present a nonlinear formulation of production scheduling problem in manufacturing level and vehicle routing problem in distributor level simultaneously and minimize total requirement time to satisfy demands. To consider real world condition, we also assume time window and split delivery in formulation. This paper will end by conclusion and future research

Keywords:

Vehicle routing problem , Scheduling , Operation costs