• Title of article

    Proposing a lower bound for a nonlinear scheduling problem in supply chain

  • Author/Authors

    Beheshtinia, Mohamad Ali Department of Industrial Engineering - Faculty of Materials and Industrial Engineering - Semnan University, Semnan , Ghasemi, Amir Department of Industrial Engineering - Faculty of Materials and Industrial Engineering - Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    1073
  • To page
    1085
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes a nonlinear programming model for a scheduling problem in the supply chain. Due to the nonlinear structure of the developed model and its NP-hard structure, a lower bound is developed. Four lemmas and a theorem are presented and proved to determine the lower bound. The proposed problem is inspired from a three stage supply chain commonly used in various industries.
  • Keywords
    scheduling , supply chain , lower bound , nonlinear programming
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
  • Serial Year
    2021
  • Record number

    2607781