Optimization of industrial-scale assemble-to-order systems

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 544-560

  Van Jaarsveld, Willem ^a   Scheller Wolf, Alan ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base stock policies; Continuous time assemble to order systems; First come first served allocation; Industrial scale problems; Optimal allocation; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLE TO ORDER; BASE STOCK POLICY; FIRST COME FIRST SERVED; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947264151     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2015.0641     Document Type: Article

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