Production-planning horizon, production smoothing, and convexity of the cost functions

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 81-82, Issue , 2003, Pages 67-74

  Ghali, Moheb A ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convexity; Cost function; Production smoothing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; PLANNING;

PRODUCTION PLANNING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 17344394759     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(02)00279-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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