Dynamic co-ordinated scheduling in the supply chain considering flexible routes

Abstract

In Supply chain (SC) environments, schedules inevitably experience various unexpected disruptions. In these cases, rescheduling is essential to minimise the negative impact on the performance of the system. In this study, a hybrid rescheduling technique is developed for solving coordinated manufacturing tasks scheduling problems with due date changes and machine breakdowns. According to the dynamic features of this problem, a strategy combined with event and periodic driven methods is proposed to improve the stability and robustness of manufacturing performance in a coordinated SC. Moreover, an application case is introduced to test and evaluate the effect of different initialisations in two types of disruption scenarios. The experimental results show that the proposed rescheduling technique has good effectiveness and efficiency in the coordinated manufacturing environment.

Keywords:

• supply chain
• dynamic scheduling
• coordinated manufacturing
• genetic algorithm

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the editor, and two anonymous referees whose comments significantly improved this paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China [grant number 71301176], MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [grant number 13XJC630011], Ministry of Education Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [grant number 20120184120040], the Teacher Innovation Project of Xidian University [grant number K5051306013].