Liu, Bin; Cao, Jinhua - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 46 (1997) 1, pp. 103-117
This paper deals with an unreliable manufacturing system in which no backlog is allowed. The hedging point policy is … used to control production. This paper's objective is to find the optimum hedging point so as to minimize the average … inventory cost. Firstly, for a tentative hedging point, we derive the limiting distribution of the inventory level. This …