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On Leadtimes and Costs in Capacitated Assembly Networks

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In the last decade considerable attention has been paid to the analysis and optimization of multi-echelon assembly networks. Research contributions in this field are mainly focussed on the determination of optimal batch quantities In this paper the notion of minimum network leadtime is introduced. This turns out to be (besides minimal average cost per period) a performance indicator of considerable importance.

The ideas will be illustrated by presenting a medium-scale example on which the optimization is performed.

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  1. Wageningen, Netherlands

    Paul van Beek

  2. Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Arie Bremer & Cornelis van Putten

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Unternehmensforschung, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, D-8400, Regensburg, Germany

    Helmut Steckhan

  2. Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Bankbetriebslehre Im Stadtwald, Universität des Saarlandes, D-6600, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Wolfgang Bühler

  3. Schering AG, SDV, Müllerstraße 170-178, D-1000, Berlin 65, Germany

    Kurt E. Jäger

  4. Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Unternehmensforschung, Universität Mannheim, Schloß, D-6800, Mannheim 1, Germany

    Christoph Schneeweiß

  5. Abteilung Statistik und Operations Research des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Postfach 3329, D-3300, Braunschweig, Germany

    Jochen Schwarze

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van Beek, P., Bremer, A., van Putten, C. (1984). On Leadtimes and Costs in Capacitated Assembly Networks. In: Steckhan, H., Bühler, W., Jäger, K.E., Schneeweiß, C., Schwarze, J. (eds) DGOR. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 1983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69546-9_40

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