Note—Comment on “Aggregate Safety Stock Levels and Component Part Commonality” | Zendy

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Note—Comment on “Aggregate Safety Stock Levels and Component Part Commonality”

Author(s) -

John O. McClain,

William Maxwell,

John A. Muckstadt,

Laura Thomas,

Elliott N. Weiss

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

management science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.954

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1526-5501

pISSN - 0025-1909

DOI - 10.1287/mnsc.30.6.772

Subject(s) - stock (firearms) , component (thermodynamics) , aggregate (composite) , safety stock , computer science , business , marketing , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , supply chain , materials science , composite material , thermodynamics

In this Note, we address the issue of safety stock considerations in an MRP environment through the use of a single identical component as a replacement for a set of multiple components. We indicate where the results reported by Collier (Collier, David A. 1982. Aggregate safety stock levels and component part commonality. Management Sci. 28 (11, November) 1296--1303.) may prove to be misleading.inventory/production: operating characteristic, inventory/production: simulation, material requirements planning

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