Production and inventory control of a single product assemble-to-order system with multiple customer classes

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1896-1912

  Benjaafar, Saif ^a   Elhafsi, Mohsen ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemble to order (ATO) systems; Make to stock queues; Markov decision processes; Production and inventory control

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLE TO ORDER (ATO) SYSTEMS; BASE STOCK LEVELS; MAKE TO STOCK QUEUES; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES;

HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 33845541662     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0588     Document Type: Article

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