Manufacturing lead-time rules: customer retention versus tardiness costs

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2003.07.023zbMath1071.90540OpenAlexW2000536542MaRDI QIDQ706883

Matthew J. Sobel, Susan A. Slotnick

Publication date: 9 February 2005

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2003.07.023

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processesDynamic programmingManufacturingMarketingDue-date assignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Dynamic programming (90C39) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Marketing, advertising (90B60)

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