Book Review:Systems Management of Operations. Martin K. Starr
In: The journal of business, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 119
ISSN: 1537-5374
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In: The journal of business, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 119
ISSN: 1537-5374
In: Decision sciences, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 631-645
ISSN: 1540-5915
One of the principal uses of simulation in business and industry is to compare alternative policies or decision rules for the operation and control of complex systems. The immediate objective of such simulation studies is usually quite simple: to discover the best of the several policies under consideration. The measure of effectiveness used is also usually straightforward, often dollars of cost or profit. The basic experimental design that will produce the best comparison of alternatives is generally agreed upon: all policies should be compared under, to the extent possible, identical experimental conditions, i.e., when randomness is involved, all alternatives in a simulation experiment should be simulated using a common sequence of randomly‐generated events.
In: Organizational dynamics: a quarterly review of organizational behavior for professional managers, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 17-29
ISSN: 0090-2616
In: Decision sciences, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 156-169
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTWe develop and test ways for modifying the Silver‐Meal and part‐period‐balancing lot‐sizing procedures to include the costs of schedule changes in response to changes in demand estimates. These modifications tend to reduce MRP system nervousness. We compare the performance of these approaches with the modified Wagner‐Whitin algorithm, which we have shown is optimal for static conditions. We find that the modified SilverMeal approach is only slightly more costly than the modified Wagner‐Whitin technique and that the modified part‐period‐balancing approach performs both poorly and erratically.