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The book delves into the complexities of globalized industrial production, highlighting how multinational companies seek competitive advantages through strategically distributed activities. It emphasizes the need for reliable, cost-efficient supply chains with short order fulfillment times, leading to low inventory levels and frequent transportation. The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is introduced, detailing performance metrics across four levels that assess supply chain reliability, responsiveness, flexibility, and cost, particularly focusing on transport and transshipment processes.

Production scheduling dictates highly constrained mathematical models with complex and often contradicting objectives. Evolutionary algorithms can be formulated almost independently of the detailed shaping of the problems under consideration. As one would expect, a weak formulation of the problem in the algorithm comes along with a quite inefficient search. This book discusses the suitability of genetic algorithms for production scheduling and presents an approach which produces results comparable with those of more tailored optimization techniques.