Dean H. Kropp
Dartmouth College
6 Papers
232 Citations
Dean H. Kropp is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Decision support system & Material requirements planning. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
A comparison of strategies to dampen nervousness in MRP systems
TL;DR: The results indicate that when the source of nervousness is due to changes in decisions caused by a rolling planning horizon, safety stock and lot-for-lot approaches are not cost effective.
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The effectiveness of extending the horizon in rolling production scheduling
TL;DR: Some of the results confirm the previous conclusions, but other results support the position that “the more information the better.”
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Heuristic lot‐sizing approaches for dealing with mrp system nervousness
TL;DR: This work develops and test ways for modifying the Silver-Meal and part-period-balancing lot-sizing procedures to include the costs of schedule changes in response to changes in demand estimates, which tend to reduce MRP system nervousness.
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The incremental benefits of changes in the timeliness of information
Willis R. Greer,Dean H. Kropp +1 more
TL;DR: This research uses modeling to explore the relationship between information timeliness and the benefits derived by implementing optimal decisions based upon the information and finds that the shape of this relationship is dependent upon the scope of the action set available to the decision maker.
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