| Article ID: | iaor1990914 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Start Page Number: | 61 |
| End Page Number: | 66 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Amar Amar Dev |
Job shops using infinite-loading and backward-scheduling MRP systems will complete some jobs out of order and/or tardy. This article uses data from such an operation to suggest a way to reduce the severity of such consequences which otherwise could build further aggregate tardiness downstream, due to shop floor culture. Results are compared on data from a medium-sized, multiproduct, multi-workcentre shop.