Keyword: inventory: order policies

Found 359 papers in total
Evolving production technologies: Implications for inventory ordering formulations
1995,
Evolving production technologies are altering the cost structures on which many...
Scheduling of storage/retrieval orders under a just-in-time environment
1995,
The authors consider the problem of scheduling storage and retrieval orders under...
Many steps towards Zero Inventory
1992,
Zero Inventory and Just-In-Time (JIT) are two of the buzz words that pretend to offer...
Sensitivity analysis for base-stock levels in multiechelon production-inventory systems
1995,
Effective management of inventories in large-scale production and distribution systems...
Lot size scheduling using fuzzy numbers
1995,
Due to imprecision that is often inherent in the estimates of future demand for...
Joint vendor-buyer policy in JIT manufacturing
1995,
This study shows that a co-operative batching policy, based on cost information...
A heuristic scheduling policy for multi-item, multi-machine production systems with time-varying, stochastic demands
1994,
An effective scheduling policy known as the Dynamic Cycle Lengths Heuristic was...
Service levels in distribution systems with random customer order size
1995,
An approximate method for measuring the service levels of the warehouse-retailer...
An algorithm for the single-item capacitated lot-sizing problem with concave production and holding costs
1994,
This paper considers a multi-period single-item production scheduling problem with a...
The flexibility of production processes: A general framework
1994,
Various models have been developed over the years to analyze the many facets of the...
Joint optimization of age replacement and continuous review spare provisioning policy
1994,
A new policy for joint optimization of age replacement and spare provisioning has been...
Some ideas regarding reserving supplier capacity and selecting replenishment quantities in a project context
1994,
In this paper the authors consider the context of a major project whose execution...
Structural properties and a heuristic for kanban-controlled serial lines
1993,
Kanban-controlled serial manufacturing systems have been popular in Japan for many...
Control theory in production/inventory systems: A case study in a food processing organization
1993,
Production/inventory sytems must attempt to cope with varying demand. This is...
Determining economic inventory policies in a multi-stage just-in-time production system
1993,
New manufacturing concepts, such as just-in-time (JIT) production, and quality at...
Capacity expansion and contraction of a facility with economies of scale
1993,
The authors present a model of capacity expansion in which capacity can be either...
Cost-based scheduling of workers and equipment in a fabrication and assembly shop
1993,
Many manufacturing firms that use Material Requirements Planning (MRP) cannot deliver...
Suboptimal policies, with bounds, for parameter adaptive decision processes
1993,
A parameter adaptive decision process is a sequential decision process where some...
Light traffic heuristic for an M/G/1 queue with limited inventory
1993,
Motivated by solving a stylized location problem, the authors develop a light traffic...
Load smoothing by the planning and Order Review/Release systems: A simulation experiment
1991,
Most research studies investigating the impact of Order Review/Release (ORR)...
Lot sizing to reduce capacity utilization in a production process with defective items, process corrections, and rework
1992,
This paper deals with the lot sizing problem in which the key features of...
The inventory joint replenishment problem with a general class of joint costs
1991,
The joint replenishment problem for the continuous review, constant demand multi-item...
Small order transportation costs in inventory control
1991,
The trend toward smaller order quantities embedded in modern inventory practices may...
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