Erschler, J.; Fontan, G.; Merce, C. Consistency of the disaggregation process in hierarchical planning. (English) Zbl 0604.90068 Oper. Res. 34, 464-469 (1986). This paper deals with the planning process of a manufacturing system in which the aggregation of products sharing similar characteristics leads to a hierarchical structure. It gives special attention to the consistency of decisions in a two-level structure, and presents necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency of a disaggregation procedure. Using a subset of these conditions improves upon the disaggregation procedure proposed by G. R. Bitran and A. C. Hax [in: Disaggregating Problems in Manufacturing and Service Organizations, L. P. Ritzman et al. (eds.), Boston (1979)]. Cited in 11 Documents MSC: 90B30 Production models Keywords:planning process; manufacturing system; aggregation of products; hierarchical structure; disaggregation procedure PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Erschler} et al., Oper. Res. 34, 464--469 (1986; Zbl 0604.90068) Full Text: DOI