The single-item lot-sizing problem with immediate lost sales

The single-item lot-sizing problem with immediate lost sales

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Article ID: iaor20042464
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 147
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 558
End Page Number: 566
Publication Date: Jun 2003
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: programming: dynamic
Abstract:

We introduce a profit maximization version of the well-known Wagner–Whitin model for the deterministic uncapacitated single-item lot-sizing problem with lost sales. Demand canot be backlogged, but it does not have to be satisfied either. Costs and selling prices are assumed to be time-variant, differentiating our model from previous models with lost sales. Production quantities and levels of lost sales in different periods represent a twofold decision problem. We first transform the total profit function into a special total cost function. We then prove several properties of an optimal solution. A forward recursive dynamic programming algorithm is developed to solve the problem optimally in O(T2) time, where T denotes the number of periods in the problem horizon. The proposed algorithm can solve problems of sizes up to 400 periods in less than a second on a 500 MHz Pentium® III processor.

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