Research Article
Production Scheduling and Customer Orders Assignment in a Three-Level Supply Chain
Table 8
Range of selection for test problems.
| Parameter | Type of the selection set | Assumed interval |
| Number of plants | Discrete set | {2, 4} | Number of distribution centers | Discrete set | {4, 6} | Time distances: plants to DCs − DCs to customers | Balanced uniform distribution | | Unbalanced uniform distribution | | Customer demands | Uniform distribution | (10–50) | Processing time of the plants | Uniform distribution | (1-2) | Packing and loading time of the distribution centers | Uniform distribution | (1–1.5) |
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