Benjaafar, Saif; ElHafsi, Mohsen - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 12, pp. 1896-1912
We consider the optimal production and inventory control of an assemble-to-order system with m components, one end-product, and n customer classes. A control policy specifies when to produce each component and, whenever an order is placed, whether or not to satisfy it from on-hand inventory. We...