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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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center
2004
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5212 |