Some Modelling Theoretic Remarks on Multi-Stage Production Planning

The papers of these proceedings are grouped according to the areas “Inventory and Distribution Problems”, “Multi-Stage Lot-Sizing”, and “Practical Applications and Hierarchical Integration Problems”. This grouping represents only one possible way of showing the relationships between the different contributions. In fact, there are many other alternative aspects which could lead to different groupings. Therefore, the following remarks may serve to exhibit some further relations. Of course, an exhaustive discussion and appreciation of all the different aspects the papers deal with is not intended.