Solving a new variant of the Resource-Constrained Activity Sequencing Problem

In applications arising in project management, warehouse stock management and project deliveries, several
activities that use a common resource need to be executed in a sequential manner in order to keep nonnegative
resource levels. As an example, consider newly produced items entering a warehouse, and the items that are
demanded by the customers leaving the warehouse. In this setting, the demand can only be satisfied if the number
of items is enough. In the classical management problem, the demand is taken as an exogenous factor, and the decision is made on the production plan. In this project, we generalize this problem by also considering the timing
of the demand as a decision. In other words, the sequence of production and demand is to be determined while
ensuring that the resource level during the execution is never below zero.

Faculty Supervisor:

Okan Arslan;Robert Pellerin

Student:

Partner:

Croesus

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

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