Kurze Durchlaufzeiten trotz kundenorientierter, variantenreicher Produktion sind in vielen Branchen Bestandteil einer unverzichtbaren Wettbewerbsstrategie. Da die unterschiedlichen Varianten i.d.R. in Konkurrenz um die verfügbare Kapazität der Fertigungsanlagen stehen, ist ein erhöhter...

This paper considers the dynamic lot sizing problem of H. M. Wagner and T. M. Whitin with the assumption that the total cost of n setups is a concave nondecreasing function of n. Such setup costs could arise from the worker learning in setups and/or technological improvements in setup methods....

Purpose: Efficient Operations and Supply Chain Management is key to building sustainable competitive edge for companies. However, the achievement of this goal is becoming challenging in the present dynamic production environment, as traditional Manufacturing Planning and Control systems were not...

This note deals with the problem of minimising the expected sum of quadratic holding and shortage inventory costs when a single, failure-prone machine produces multiple part-types. Shu and Perkins (2001) introduce the problem and, by restricting the set of control policies to the class of...