Optimal pricing and production control in an assembly system with a general stockout cost

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1821-1826

  Keblis, Matthew F ^a   Feng, Youyi ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Zaragoza Logistics Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assemble to order; demand process management; dynamic pricing; optimal production control

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; BASE STOCK POLICY; DISCOUNTED PROFIT; DYNAMIC PRICING; END-PRODUCTS; INFINITE HORIZONS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL PRODUCTION; PRICE ADJUSTMENT; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; STATE-DEPENDENT; STOCK-OUT; THRESHOLD SWITCHING;

ASSEMBLY; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84862983475     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2178335     Document Type: Article

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