Short-term robustness of production management systems: A case study

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 452-465

  Kleijnen, Jack P C ^a   Gaury, Eric ^b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LIMOS/IFMA   (France)

^c Lanner Group France   (France)

Author keywords

Inventory; Manufacturing; Risk analysis; Robustness and sensitivity analysis; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0037449249     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00437-X     Document Type: Article

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