Article ID: | iaor1990840 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 27 |
End Page Number: | 31 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
Journal: | Journal of Operations Management |
Authors: | Chong Philip S. |
This note disputes several observations made by James R. Evans’ article, ‘An Efficient Implementation of the Wagner-Whitin (WW) Algorithm for Dynamic Lot-Sizing,’ Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1985. By testing the algorithm within a micro-based manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system, the writer of this note shows that WW is still computationally burdensome compared to heuristic methods, particularly within the context of a micro-based MRP system implementation.