An optimal policy for a just-in-time integrated manufacturing system for time-varying demand process

摘要

In a recent article published in Omar et al. (2013), Omar et al. proposed two policies to deal with the integrated system comprises raw material supplier, manufacturer and buyer. In the first policy they considered equal shipment interval while for the second policy they assumed equal shipment lot size. In this paper, we propose an optimal policy where the shipment intervals as well as the lot sizes are varied.