An empirical investigation of different strategies for material requirements planning
实证研究了五种整合主生产排程、组件批量与产能需求计划模块的策略，通过改变十个实验因素分析不同环境下的效果，为管理者选择策略提供指导。
Abstract Master production scheduling, component lot sizing, and capacity requirements planning represent three important modules of material requirements planning (MRP) systems. Coordinating these three modules has been largely dependent on managerial judgment and experience. In this research, five different strategies for integrating these modules are empirically investigated. These strategies differ mainly in the extent to which the modules are coordinated. The impact of the shop, product, component and cost characteristics is measured by varying ten experimental factors. The research findings so obtained provide several guidelines on the effectiveness of each strategy in different environmental settings.