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.