Due-date setting and production control

This paper considers a scheduling problem in a stochastic single-product situation with production to order. For this situation it considers a general rule with small overall costs, by finding the best combination of rules for due-date setting to arriving jobs and production planning, or in other words: a rule leading to acceptable due-dates for most of the clients, with limited costs for storage and penalties, as a result of deviations from the due-dates, and with limited set-up costs.