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Billions of dollars are tied up in the inventories of manufacturing companies which cause large (interest) costs. A small decrease of the inventory and/or production costs without reduction of the service level can increase the profit substantially. Especially in the case of scarce capacity, efficient production schedules are fondamental for short delivery time and on-time delivery which are important competitive priorities. To support decision makers by improving their manufacturing resource planning system with appropriate methods is one of the most interesting challenges of production planning.
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Haase, K. (1994). Introduction. In: Lotsizing and Scheduling for Production Planning. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45735-7_1
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