Avṣar, Zeynep Müge; Henk Zijm, W. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 236 (2014) 1, pp. 135-146
A queueing analysis is presented for base-stock controlled multi-stage production-inventory systems with capacity constraints. The exact queueing model is approximated by replacing some state-dependent conditional probabilities (that are used to express the transition rates) by constants. Two...