Cost and Shortage Trade‐Offs in Aggregate Production Planning*
针对短缺成本难以测量的难题，本文开发了一个最优策略函数（分段线性或曲线），用于权衡短缺与生产和库存成本之和，辅助管理者做出最优决策。
ABSTRACT It is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to measure shortage costs. To bypass this difficulty in aggregate production planning, this paper develops an optimal policy function (piecewise linear or a curve) for trade‐offs between shortages and the sum of production and inventory costs. The optimal management decision is based on this function. It should be of major interest in production planning since similar functions for inventory management have been successfully applied in practice.