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Coordinated scheduling of customer orders for quick response

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  • Reza Ahmadi
  • Uttarayan Bagchi
  • Thomas A. Roemer

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The scheduling problem addressed in this paper concerns a manufacturer who produces a variety of product types and operates in a make‐to‐order environment. Each customer order consists of known quantities of the different product types, and must be delivered as a single shipment. Periodically the manufacturer schedules the accumulated and unscheduled customer orders. Instances of this problem occur across industries in manufacturing as well as in service environments. In this paper we show that the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of customer order delivery times is unary NP‐hard. We characterize the optimal schedule, solve several special cases of the problem, derive tight lower bounds, and propose several heuristic solutions. We report the results of a set of computational experiments to evaluate the lower bounding procedures and the heuristics, and to determine optimal solutions. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.

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  • Reza Ahmadi & Uttarayan Bagchi & Thomas A. Roemer, 2005. "Coordinated scheduling of customer orders for quick response," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 52(6), pages 493-512, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:52:y:2005:i:6:p:493-512
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.20092
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