Quoting Customer Lead Times

Izak Duenyas and Wallace J. Hopp
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Izak Duenyas: Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Wallace J. Hopp: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208

Management Science, 1995, vol. 41, issue 1, 43-57

Abstract: We consider the problem of quoting customer lead times in a manufacturing environment under a variety of modeling assumptions. First, we examine the case where capacity is infinite. For this case, we derive a closed-form expression for the optimal lead time quote. Second, we consider the case where capacity is finite and the firm processes jobs in first-come-first-served (FCFS) order. We prove the optimality of different forms of control limit policies for the situations where the lead time is dictated by the market and where firms are able to compete on the basis of lead time. Finally, we consider the case where the firm may choose to schedule jobs in other than FCFS order and give conditions under which the optimal due-date-quoting/order-scheduling policy will process jobs in earliest due date (EDD) order.

Keywords: lead times; queueing models; sequencing and scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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