Service levels, system cost and stability of production-inventory control systems

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 7085-7105

  Bijulal, D ^a   Venkateswaran, Jayendran ^a   Hemachandra, N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Control theory; Discrepancy adjustments; Forecasting constant; Ordering policies; Production inventory systems; Service level; Stability

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COST; AVERAGE SYSTEM; CONTROL PARAMETERS; COST PERFORMANCE; DEMAND FLUCTUATIONS; DEMAND FORECASTING; DISCREPANCY ADJUSTMENTS; FILL RATE; ORDERING POLICIES; PARAMETERS SELECTION; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PRODUCTION INVENTORY SYSTEM; PRODUCTION-INVENTORY CONTROL; PRODUCTION-INVENTORY SYSTEMS; RANDOM DEMAND; SAFETY STOCK; SERVICE LEVELS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SMOOTHING FACTORS; STABLE REGION; SYSTEM COSTS; UNCERTAIN DEMAND; WORK-IN-PROCESS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; STABILITY;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 84855784177     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.538744     Document Type: Review

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