Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1142186 Operations Research Letters 2014 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study the value of component commonality in assemble-to-order systems under no-holdback allocation rules. We prove that the total product backorder and on-hand component inventory decrease with probability one as the degree of commonality increases; however, the average cost may not decrease unless a certain cost symmetric condition is imposed.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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