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Trade-off between capacity invested and inventory needed

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  • Jodlbauer, Herbert
  • Altendorfer, Klaus

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A multi-item capacitated make-to-order production system with considerable demand fluctuations is discussed. The relationship between the available capacity and the inventory needed to meet customer requirements with a pre-defined service level is modeled. Furthermore, the total cost for both capacity and inventory is minimized and it is shown that, assuming negligible change-over times, the double of the surplus inventory cost has to be equal to the excess capacity cost to ensure minimum total cost.

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  • Jodlbauer, Herbert & Altendorfer, Klaus, 2010. "Trade-off between capacity invested and inventory needed," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 203(1), pages 118-133, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:203:y:2010:i:1:p:118-133
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