Helber, Stefan; Schimmelpfeng, Katja; Stolletz, Raik - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 98-115
This paper treats the problem of setting the inventory level and optimizing the buffer allocation of closed-loop flow lines operating under the constant-work-in-process (CONWIP) protocol. We solve a very large but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of a closed-loop flow...
