Scheduling a Make-To-Stock Queue: Index Policies and Hedging Points

A single machine produces several different classes of items in a make-to-stock mode. We consider the problem of scheduling the machine to regulate finished goods inventory, minimizing holding and backorder or holding and lost sales costs. Demands are Poisson, service times are exponentially distrib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Veatch, Michael H., Wein, Lawrence M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5212

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