| Article ID: | iaor20001472 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 85 |
| End Page Number: | 92 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Hautaniemi Petri, Pirttila Timo |
| Keywords: | inventory: order policies |
This paper studies the choice of replenishment policies in an MRP environment. It discusses the classification of items and the criteria to use in the classification especially in a general assemble-to-order company. The paper presents a stepwise procedure to classify items into five general groups. The stepwise classification saves work by excluding items from further analysis in each step.