摘要：We consider a single-stage multiproduct manufacturing facility producing several
end-products for delivery to customers with a required customer
lead-time. The end-products can be split in two classes: few
products with high volume demands and a large number of products
with low-volume demands. In order to reduce inventory costs, it
seems efficient to produce the high-volume products according to an
MTS policy and the low volume products according to an MTO policy.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the impact of
the scheduling policy on the overall inventory costs, under
customer lead-time service level constraints. We consider two
policies: the classical FIFO policy and a priority policy (PR)
which gives priority to low volume products over high volume
products. We show that for some range of parameters, the PR rule
can significantly outperform the FIFO rule. In these ranges, the
service level constraints are satisfied by the PR rule with much
lower inventory costs.
