Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation

Abstract Most Workload Control literature assumes that delivery performance is determined by tardiness related measures only. While this may be true for companies directly deliver to end-customers, make-to-stock or firms are part of supply chains, producing early often means large inventories in the finished goods warehouse penalties incurred downstream chain. Some earlier studies used a so-called time limit, which constrains set jobs can considered order release, reduce earliness. However, recent largely abandoned limit since it negatively impacts performance. This study revisits assessing use different adaptive policies restrict its periods either low high load. By using simulation model pure job shop, shows an policy allows balance contradictory objectives delaying release orders earliness and respond load as quick possible. Meanwhile, only was found best policy.