An alternative to safety stock policies for multi-level rolling schedule MRP problems

Nicolas P. Dellaert (1) , Jully Jeunet (2)

1 Department of Operations Management
2 LAMSADE - Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision

We study the impact of positive lead times on the multi-level lot-sizing problem in a rolling schedule environment. We show how stockout situations may arise even in a context of deterministic demand. We therefore develop a procedure to avoid such stockouts and we compare its performance through a simulation study to a safety stock strategy. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed procedure.

Nicolas P. Dellaert, Jully Jeunet. An alternative to safety stock policies for multi-level rolling schedule MRP problems. 2005. ⟨hal-00004185⟩