Eliminating drift in inventory and order based production control systems

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 93-94, Issue SPEC.ISS., 2005, Pages 331-344

  Disney, S M ^a   Towill, D R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Lead times; Order up to policy; Stability; Work in progress; Z transforms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

LEAD TIMES; ORDER-UP-TO POLICY; WORK-IN-PROGRESS; Z-TRANSFORMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 9544250389     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2004.06.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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