Utilizing Forecast Band Refinement for Capacitated Production Planning

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 68-81

  Kaminsky, Philip ^a   Swaminathan, Jayashankar M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Capacity; Discrete demand; Forecast evolution; Heuristics; Information updates; Production planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041638119     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.1.68.9999     Document Type: Article

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