“…In contrast, the research on the integrated production-distribution scheduling problem is relatively recent, and it is termed as the integrated production-distribution planning or scheduling; this domain includes studies such as those of Pundoor and Chen [6], Pornsing et al [7], Zhong and Jiang [8], Russel et al [9], Kishimoto et al [10], Ma et al [11], and Scholz-Reiter et al [12]. In the models presented in some studies, for example, in Cheng et al [13], Devapriya et al [14], and Noroozi et al [15], one or a combination of cost-based, time-based, and revenue-based performance measures is often seen as the goal of system optimization [16{23], and the relevant truck routes, eet size, job processing or batching are seen as constraints. The literature pertaining to the methods employed to balance the respective plans of the di erent branches in the integrated supply chain, aimed at minimizing the total global cost from the global perspective, is quite limited in scope.…”