Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1142975 Operations Research Letters 2009 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

We show that in an optimal solution of the economic lot-sizing problem the total holding cost in an order interval is bounded from above by a quantity proportional to the setup cost and the logarithm of the number of periods in the interval. We present two applications of this result.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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A holding cost bound for the economic lot-sizing problem with time-invariant cost parameters
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