This paper studies the choice of replenishment policies in an MRP environme
nt. It discusses the classification of items and the criteria to use in the
classification especially in a general assemble-to-order company. The pape
r presents a stepwise procedure to classify items into five general groups.
The stepwise classification saves work by excluding items from further ana
lysis in each step. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.