Article ID: | iaor1989474 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 12 |
Start Page Number: | 2063 |
End Page Number: | 2074 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Kiran Ali S. |
Keywords: | heuristics |
A combined heuristic approach for dynamic lot sizing problems has been proposed. The combined heuristic is based on the performance analysis of the Silver-Meal heuristic of different problem sizes and demand patterns. The heuristic performs extremely well on average, and has a worst case performance ratio of two.