Beliën, J.; Boeck, L. De; Colpaert, J. - In: Review of Business and Economic Literature 57 (2012) 3, pp. 14-14
Variability is known to degrade performance in manufacturing and service environments in some way. If no measures are taken to reduce variability, systems can be protected from the negative impact of variability by installing buffers. One can choose between three buffer types: inventory buffers,...