| Article ID: | iaor1994892 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 51 |
| End Page Number: | 57 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Plenert Gerhard, Lee Terry Nels |
| Keywords: | theory of constraints |
R.E. Fox offered a procedure for the theory of constraints (TOC) calculation. This article is a demonstration that this procedure is inefficient when making new product introduction decisions. The Fox model is based on a point-in-time evaluation. Linear-integer programming is a much better planning tool and comes closer to achieving the TOC goal of maximizing throughput.