Hirakawa, Yasuhiro; Hoshino, Kyoji; Katayama, Hiroshi - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 12 (1992) 4, pp. 69-81
Recently, it has been recognized that production control systems for multi‐stage manufacturing processes can be classified into push‐type and pull‐type systems. The push‐type systems are commonly defined as those types of materials requirements planning system which utilize the forecast...
