The effectiveness of input control based on aggreǵate versus bottleneck work loads

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 614-624

  Enns, S T ^a   Costa, Myriam Prongué ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottleneck scheduling; Input control; Order release; Work load control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AGGREGATE STRATEGY; BOTTLENECK STRATEGY; INPUT CONTROL; ORDER RELEASE; WORK LOAD CONTROL;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0036820210     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0953728021000026258     Document Type: Article

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