The Effectiveness of Several Performance Bounds for Capacitated Production, Partial-Order-Service, Assemble-to-Order Systems

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 230-251

  Dayanik, Savas ^a   Song, Jing Sheng ^b   Xu, Susan H ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemble to Order Manufacturing Systems; Performance Measures; Setwise Lower Upper Bounds

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER (ATO); CUSTOMER ORDERS; PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0345548368     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.5.3.230.16033     Document Type: Article

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