Article ID: | iaor199453 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 204 |
End Page Number: | 217 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Atkins Derek, Iyogun Paul |
Keywords: | distribution, heuristics |
This paper concerns lot-sizing in a multistage and multifacility pure distribution network. A facility at the end of the distribution network experiences a deterministic and continuous demand. Each facility has an echelon holding cost rate for each item it distributes, and a facility-dependent set up cost. In this paper an algorithm is presented of complexity 0(