Recent Advances in Planning and Scheduling for Supply Chain Optimization
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: production scheduling; combination optimization; evolutionary computation
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Interests: machine scheduling; approximation algorithm; process optimization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The intellectualization and greenization of supply chains are driving transformative innovations in optimization theories and operation techniques, enabling enterprises to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement. Recent advancements in smart technologies (e.g., big data, cloud computing, and AI) have intensified academic and industrial focus on the optimization of planning and scheduling—the decision-making cores of supply chain management. Numerous successful applications have been presented in supply chain domains, including order processing, product manufacture, equipment assembly, warehousing and transportation, etc.
This Special Issue aims to collect up-to-date and high-quality studies incorporating novel methods on planning and scheduling in the area of supply chain optimization, as well as to promote developments and applications of operations research theory and methods in relevant fields. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Scheduling in advanced manufacturing;
- Logistics scheduling and optimization;
- AI-based planning and scheduling;
- Routing optimization in distribution;
- Data-driven production scheduling;
- Optimization for facility location.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Danyu Bai
Dr. Dehua Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- planning and scheduling
- production scheduling
- logistics optimization
- facility location
- combination optimization
- evolutionary computation
- machine learning
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