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Inventory Decoupling

Inventory Decoupling is a production control strategy that serves as a buffer mechanism within pull production systems, distinguished by its deliberate placement of strategic inventory at critical interfaces to isolate stages of the production process from variability and disruptions, thereby enabling independent operation and improved flow efficiency.

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2017–2026

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On decoupling points and decoupling zones

Joakim Wikner · Production & Manufacturing Research · 2014 · 41 citations · Full text

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Creating an Inventory Hedge for Markov-Modulated Poisson Demand: An Application and Model

Hari S. Abhyankar, Stephen C. Graves · Manufacturing & Service Operations Management · 2001 · 34 citations

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Separation of Perishable Inventories in Offline Retailing Through Transshipment

Qing Li, Peiwen Yu, Lilun Du · Operations Research · 2021 · 16 citations · Full text

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Multiple customer order decoupling points within a hybrid MTS/MTO manufacturing supply chain with uncertain demands in two consecutive echelons

Iman Ghalehkhondabi, Dušan Šormaz, Gary R. Weckman · OPSEARCH · 2016 · 13 citations

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    Dušan Šormaz

    Ohio University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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    Qing Li

    Chongqing University, China

    1 publications · 16 citations

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    Hari S. Abhyankar

    Prudential Financial (United States), United States

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  4. IG
    Iman Ghalehkhondabi

    Our Lady of the Lake University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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    Peiwen Yu

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China

    1 publications · 16 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Ohio University

    Athens, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    39 citations

  2. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    48 citations

  3. Prudential Financial (United States)

    Newark, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  4. Jönköping University

    Jönköping, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  6. Chongqing University

    Chongqing, China

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    48 citations

  7. Linköping University

    Linköping, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

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  1. OPSEARCH

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  2. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  3. Operations Research

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  4. Production & Manufacturing Research

    1 publications · 41 citations

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