Planning Stability in Material Requirements Planning Systems

1. Introduction -- 2. Material Requirements Planning and Inventory Control -- 3. Nervousness in Material Requirements Planning Systems -- 4. Single-Stage Production Systems -- 5. Product Recovery Systems -- 6. Conclusions -- A. Approximation for Renewal Function M(x) -- A.1 Mixed-Erlang Distribution -- A.2 Hyperexponential Distribution -- B. (s, S) Policy -- B.1 General Stability Functions -- B.2 Mixed-Erlang Distributed Demand -- B.3 Exponentially Distributed Demand -- B.3.3 Properties of Stability Function -- B.3.3.1 Simplification of Stability Function -- B.3.3.5 Minimum Stability for long-term Setup Stability -- B.4 Hyperexponentially Distributed Demand -- B.5 Short-term Planning Stability -- C. (s, nQ) Policy -- C.1 General Stability Functions -- C.2 Mixed-Erlang Distributed Demand -- C.3 Exponentially Distributed Demand -- C.4 Hyperexponentially Distributed Demand -- C.5 Short-Term Planning Stability -- C.6 Proof of Algorithm I -- D. Product Recovery Systems -- D.1 (s,S) Policy -- D.1.2 Exponentially Distributed Demand and Returns -- D.2 (S,D) Policy -- D.2.2 Exponentially Distributed Demand and Returns -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Symbols -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- References.