The value of using scheduling information in planning material requirements

Decision Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 479-496

  Kanet, John J ^a   Sridharan, Sri V ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Job shop scheduling; Material requirements planning; Order release; Production and inventory control systems; Queuing theory, and simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032366810     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1998.tb01585.x     Document Type: Article

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