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Designing for manufacturing flexibility: a newsvendor approach

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  • Layek L. Abdel-Malek
  • Nathapol Areeratchakul
  • Mojisola K. Otegbeye

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With today's fast paced technology advancement, flexibility has emerged as a strategic imperative for the viability of business enterprises. Central to the success of any flexibility initiative, is the prudent design and selection of production systems to meet the needs of a concern in an uncertain environment. In this paper, we extend the newsvendor problem to optimise the selection of equipments for different flexibility classes and present a numerical example to show the application of the developed model. Though geared towards manufacturing, the model can be extended to other areas such as that of supply chain flexibility.

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  • Layek L. Abdel-Malek & Nathapol Areeratchakul & Mojisola K. Otegbeye, 2006. "Designing for manufacturing flexibility: a newsvendor approach," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(1/2), pages 201-220.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:1:y:2006:i:1/2:p:201-220
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