%0 Journal Article
	%A Christian Meinecke and  Bernd Scholz-Reiter
	%D 2014
	%J International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 86, 2014
	%T A Heuristic for the Integrated Production and Distribution Scheduling Problem
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997405
	%V 86
	%X The integrated problem of production and distribution scheduling is relevant in many industrial applications. Thus, many heuristics to solve this integrated problem have been developed in the last decade. Most of these heuristics use a sequential working principal or a single decomposition and integration approach to separate and solve subproblems. A heuristic using a multi step decomposition and integration approach is presented in this paper and evaluated in a case study. The result show significant improved results compared with sequential scheduling heuristics.

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