| Article ID: | iaor199049 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Start Page Number: | 20 |
| End Page Number: | 29 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1986 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Heemsbergen B.L. |
The three methods generally used for calculating holding costs in the single-level discrete-demand lot sizing environment are considered. Two of these, the end-of-period and generated-part-period methods, are shown to be equivalent, and the third, the average-inventory-level method, develops different results.