A queuing model on supply chain with the form postponement strategy

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 643-652

  Zhou, Wenhui ^a   Zhang, Renqian ^b   Zhou, Yongwu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Customer order decoupling point; Form postponement; Mass customization; Queuing network

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER ORDER DECOUPLING POINT; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POSTPONEMENT STRATEGIES; QUEUING NETWORK; SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; SALES;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 84886060574     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2013.09.022     Document Type: Article

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