Single item lot - sizing problem for a warm/cold process with immediate lost sales

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Author
Berk, E.
Toy, A. Ö.
Hazır, Ö.
Date
2008-06-16Journal Title
European Journal of Operational Research
Print ISSN
0377-2217
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
187
Issue
3
Pages
1251 - 1267
Language
English
Type
Article
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/11597Abstract
We consider the dynamic lot-sizing problem with finite capacity and possible lost sales for a process that could be kept
warm at a unit variable cost for the next period t + 1 only if more than a threshold value Qt has been produced and would
be cold, otherwise. Production with a cold process incurs a fixed positive setup cost, Kt and setup time, St, which may be
positive. Setup costs and times for a warm process are negligible. We develop a dynamic programming formulation of the
problem, establish theoretical results on the structure of the optimal production plan in the presence of zero and positive
setup times with Wagner–Whitin-type cost structures. We also show that the solution to the dynamic lot-sizing problem
with lost sales are generated from the full commitment production series improved via lost sales decisions in the presence of
a warm/cold process.
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