Emission-Based Production and Inventory Control System: A Stability-Based Analysis for System Cost and Service Level

A discrete-time stability analysis is performed on an Emission-based Production and Inventory Control System (EPICS) to identify stability boundaries for control parameters. An initial simulation-based analysis is performed to determine short-term system performance on sustainability dimensions: service level (social measure) and system cost (economic measure) for stability boundaries of Production Inventory (PI) control parameters and Emission-control parameters. Negative Item Fill Rate (IFR) as an undesired state from order cancellation/return due to high Emission-control weightage results in high system costs. Further, as variability in the system increases, system performance for both cost and service level under higher Emission weightage is unaffected but for higher PI weightage system performance is significantly impacted.