Outsourcing, an operations strategy that influences the performance of a supply chain, has
become an important component of global operations management. An effective global …

According to [Dolgui, Alexandre, and Jean Marie Proth. 2010. Supply Chain Engineering:
Useful Methods and Techniques. Vol. 539. Springer.], advancing tactical levels in production …

This paper proposes an order planning method for an MTO-MTS (make-to-order/make-to-
stock) production system, where semi-finished products are produced in advance to shorten …

Scheduling is significant in improving the production efficiency and reducing delivery delays
for manufacturing enterprises. Unlike the flexible job-shop scheduling problem, two special …

We consider the no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with rejection. We first show how to
augment the travelling salesman problem formulation for the no-wait flow shop minimum …

Purpose Outsourcing is a crucial tool for an organization to focus on its core business
operations. The purpose of this study is to find critical success factors (CSFs) of outsourcing …

We consider the robust (min-max regret) version of identical parallel machine scheduling
problem, in which jobs may be outsourced to balance total cost against production …

Ordered flow shop models have appeared in the literature since the mid‐1970s and
proportionate flow shop models have appeared since the early 1980s. We provide a …

This paper addresses the two-machine flow shop outsourcing and rescheduling problem
(TFSORP) in response to an unexpected arrival of new jobs, in which each job can be …

This paper considers a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with outsourcing lead-
time. While the first operation of jobs can be either processed in-house or outsourced to …