TY - BOOK AU - Ullrich, Christian Alexander TI - Issues in supply chain scheduling and contracting SN - 9783658037680 U1 - 658.404 PY - 2013/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer KW - Business logistics KW - Production scheduling KW - Project management KW - Business logistics--Management N2 - Introduction Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the authorĀ“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 ER -