Glasserman, Paul; Wang, Yashan - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 1 (1999) 1, pp. 62-76
The bottleneck in a production-inventory network is commonly taken to be the facility that most limits flow through the … network and thus the most highly utilized facility. A further connotation of "bottleneck," however, is the facility that most … station's propensity to constrain the fill rate. We call a station with a minimal measure a fill-rate bottleneck and justify …