Download or read book Issues in Supply Chain Scheduling and Contracting written by Christian Alexander Ullrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author ́s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better than those of classic decomposition approaches which break down the overall problem and solve the subproblems successively. The scope is then broadened to include the machine and transportation scheduling problems of two and more companies at consecutive supply chain stages. The last part of this dissertation addresses supply chain contracting issues.