63Production/Distribution/Routing Planning for Supply Chain Networks
the design of methodologies. The size of the computational testing instances
is small enough for the solver to handle, or else the problem comes from real-
world practice so that the solution by a solver is applicable.
Rizk et al. (2006) examined a multiple-product production–distribution
planning problem on a single manufacturer and a single destination. The
manufacturer operates a serial production process with a bottleneck stage,
subject to a predetermined production sequence. The manufacturing cost
consists of the changeover cost of intermediate products and the inventory
holding cost of nal products. The transportation cost is characterized by
a general piecewise linear ...