Deterministic Lotsizing Models for Production Planning

✍ Scribed by Dr. Marc Salomon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 355
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This thesis deals with timing and sizing decisions for production lots, and more precisely, with mathematical models to support optimal tim­ ing and sizing decisions. These models are called lotsizing models. They are characterized by the fact that production lots are determined based on a trade-offbetween production costs and customer service. Production costs can be categorized as basic production costs, which consist of material costs, labour costs, machine startup costs and over­ head costs, and inventory related costs, which include costs of capital tied up in inventory, insurances and taxes. Customer service is the capability of the firm to deliver to their clients the products in the quantity they ordered at the agreed upon time and place. The costs of realizing a certain service level are usuaIly very dif­ ficult to convert into money. They include costs of expediting, loss of customer goodwill, and loss of sales revenues resulting from the short­ age situation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Model Survey....Pages 17-38
The Discrete Lotsizing and Scheduling Problem (DLSP)....Pages 39-56
The Single Item DLSP....Pages 57-78
The Multi-item DLSP....Pages 79-102
The Uncapacitated Problem....Pages 103-117
The Capacitated Problem....Pages 119-141
Back Matter....Pages 143-158

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory