Optimization of Strawberry Supply Chain from the Perspective of Producers

This thesis aims at maximizing the profit of a strawberry producer while satisfying the retailer's demand and meeting other constraints. The amount of strawberries to be delivered to the retailer signed in the contract is the main decision variable to be optimized in the problem. Furthermore, the transportation scheduling is also optimized to...

Model-Driven Objective Functions in MPC using Economic Engineering Systems Theory: With an Application to Supply-Chain Scheduling at Shell

This thesis introduces a theory for model-driven objective functions in Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms. For scheduling supply chains, such model-driven objective functions allow the MPC algorithm to make optimal scheduling decisions by anticipating future changes in product flow and transfer price dynamics. Including such dynamics...

Prognostics-driven supply chain optimization in commercial aviation

Maintenance providers in commercial aviation are looking into new strategies to improve maintenance operations and aircraft availability in order to reduce cost and increase customer satisfaction. Aircraft availability and thus profitability highly relies on adequate maintenance because an aircraft is only profitable when...