Article ID: | iaor1989625 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 61 |
End Page Number: | 66 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1989 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Arkin Esther, Joneja Dev, Roundy Robin |
Keywords: | production |
Recently there has been a flurry of research in the area of production planning for multi-echelon production-distribution systems with deterministic non-stationary demands and no capacity constraints. A variety of algorithms have been proposed to optimally solve these problems, with varying success. This paper investigates the issue of computational complexity of the problem for all commonly studied product structures, i.e. the single item, the serial system, the assembly system, the one-warehouse-