Assemble to order and assemble in advance in a single‐period stochastic environment

Amit Eynan and Meir J. Rosenblatt

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1995, vol. 42, issue 5, 861-872

Abstract: Faced with stochastic demand, a firm may decide to assemble its products in advance or assemble them once actual demand is realized. In general, the production cost for items assembled in advance (AIA) is lower than for items assembled to order (ATO), because there is no need to expedite, and the production process can be planned and executed well in advance. On the other hand, items assembled in advance (AIA) for which there is no demand incur excessive and unnecessary assembly costs. The two policies, AIA and ATO, as well as a composite one, are compared and analyzed in light of these trade‐offs. The composite model, which is shown as the dominating policy, is also extended to deal with the following two scenarios. The first assumes a loss of a fraction of the demand when demand cannot be satisfied from the shelf but rather through ATO. The second considers the effects of budget constraints on the total inventory cost. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1995
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