Little's Law in a continuous setting

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-16

  Jodlbauer, Herbert ^a   Stöcher, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b PROFACTOR GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Inventory; Lead time; Little's law; Priority rule

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; JOB ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING;

INVENTORY; LEAD-TIME; LITTLE'S LAW; PRIORITY RULE;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 33744974751     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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