| Article ID: | iaor20081609 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 54 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 33 |
| End Page Number: | 45 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Lu Yingdong |
| Keywords: | scheduling, production |
We investigate inventory management for a large-scale multi-product, multi-component Assemble-to-Order system with general random batch demands. Results from extreme statistics theory are applied in developing approximation schemes for a widely used performance measure, customer backorders.