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Constrained Inventory Rules for Production Smoothing

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  • Peter R. Winters

    (Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology)

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Production smoothing (or production planning) methods are used to decide on aggregate production levels for a factory, without specifying what individual products should be produced, or when, or how much. Inventory control of finished goods inventory makes these latter decisions, but does so for each product, independently, without regard for the aggregate effect on the factory. This paper discusses several (unsatisfactory) attempts to make these two sets of decisions consistent, and then presents several ways of making trigger and lot-size inventory decisions (production decisions for individual products) that aim at minimizing total inventory costs while yielding a desired level of aggregate factory production.

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  • Peter R. Winters, 1962. "Constrained Inventory Rules for Production Smoothing," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 8(4), pages 470-481, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:8:y:1962:i:4:p:470-481
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.8.4.470
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    1. S. David Wu & Eui-Seok Byeon & Robert H. Storer, 1999. "A Graph-Theoretic Decomposition of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem to Achieve Scheduling Robustness," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 47(1), pages 113-124, February.
    2. Bitran, Gabriel R. & Tirupati, Devanath., 1989. "Hierarchical production planning," Working papers 3017-89., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    3. Axsater, Sven & Rosling, Kaj, 1999. "Ranking of generalised multi-stage KANBAN policies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 113(3), pages 560-567, March.

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