An (s, S) inventory system with service facilities has been investigated in this study. Demands arrive as a Poisson process with parameter λ (0) to an infinite capacity pool at any given time t. When the inventory is greater than the buffer size a customer will transfer to the buffer with rate...

Controlling the production in an industrial organisation is very complex. There are two different reasons for this complexity. On the one hand, complexity is due to the variety in range and in level of detail of the activities that playa role in such a control (think of manufacturing process...