Research Article

Production Scheduling and Customer Orders Assignment in a Three-Level Supply Chain

Table 8

Range of selection for test problems.

ParameterType of the selection setAssumed interval

Number of plantsDiscrete set{2, 4}
Number of distribution centersDiscrete set{4, 6}
Time distances: plants to DCs − DCs to customersBalanced uniform distribution
Unbalanced uniform distribution
Customer demandsUniform distribution (10–50)
Processing time of the plantsUniform distribution (1-2)
Packing and loading time of the distribution centersUniform distribution (1–1.5)