A robust replenishment and production control policy for a single-stage production/inventory system with inventory inaccuracy

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 326-337

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Chan, Felix T S ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Inventory inaccuracy; optimal production control; production inventory system; robust replenishment and production control

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; INVENTORY AND PRODUCTION; INVENTORY INACCURACY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL PRODUCTION; ORDERING LEAD TIME; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 84921328670     PISSN: 21682216     EISSN: 21682232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2014.2329284     Document Type: Article

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