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Supply Chain Scheduling: Integrated machine scheduling and vehicle routing
2014Increasing pressure on global markets forces companies as well as entire supply chains to capitalize rigorously on saving potentials. For example, just-in-time and just-insequence concepts are widely used to reduce logistics expenditures which often represent over 30% of the total costs of a product (Thomas and Griffin, 1996). Such approaches, however,
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Integrating Timetabling and Vehicle Scheduling
2020In this chapter, we consider the integration of periodic timetabling and aperiodic vehicle scheduling. In contrast to the previous chapters, passenger routes are regarded as fixed to reduce the computational challenge.
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Integrated scheduling and location problems
2011As a second application of geometric branch-and-bound methods we present an integrated scheduling and location problem, namely the ScheLoc makespan problem. ScheLoc problems are location problems where we want to find an optimal location as well as an optimal schedule in an integrated model.
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An integrated nurse scheduling model.
Journal of the Society for Health Systems, 1992Hospitals provide continuous service, including during holidays. This requirement causes discontent among hospital personnel, including nurses, and is often cited as one cause of the nurse shortage. This discontent and the pressure on hospitals to limit costs highlight the importance of nurse scheduling.
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