| Article ID: | iaor19951230 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Start Page Number: | 1335 |
| End Page Number: | 1337 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1994 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Teng J.-T. |
This paper proposes a hybrid heuristic method to solve the problem of determining the timing and size of replenishments in order to minimize the total replenishment and inventory holding costs in the case of a deterministic demand pattern having a linear trend. The method obtains the optimal solutions in the two examples most widely used in this journal.