WANG Haiwen;CHEN Rongqiu;WU Jibing
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2005, 18(4): 456-463.
An assembly-to-order system, which at the end the buffer
distinguishes its assembly stages of the system from the
downstream systems, is considered in this paper. The system
produces semi-finished products for the downstream system and
starts from a basic subassembly, and at each stage a component is
assembled into the corresponding subassembly. The basic
subassembly, components and buffer all follow a periodic-review,
order up-to-level inventory policy. The buffer holds the
semi-finished products to serve the specific demand from the
downstream system. The service level of the system is determined
by aggregate effects of the components held at stockpiles before
the buffer and the basic subassembly. In order to measure the
service level of the system, some notations and assumptions are
made, on which the closed form expression of the service level of
the system is achieved.