Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Industrial Engineering 2328-3998 2 1 2014 04 01 A Scheduling Model of Coal Supply Chain Based on Supply Chain Management (SCM) 15 20 EN Jiguang WANG School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, P.R. China Jinjing ZHANG Jingfeng LI AJIE2014214 10.12691/ajie-2-1-4 2014 03 11 2014 03 28 2014 04 01 In this paper, we develop a scheduling model based on SCM to deal with the contradiction between scale production and customized demand on coal industry. When analyzing the coal logistics from coal mine to end-customers, we draw an operating flow chart, from which we can find out the relationship among the departments in coal supply chain. According to the flow chart we can describe the input/output (I/O) constraints by algebraic expression. The objective function minimizes the operating costs of every department in coal supply chain, and an optimal solution can be obtained through the use of Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). In that way we can get a specific task timetable to guild their work and the activities.