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: | Chand Suresh, Altinkemer Kemal, Aksen Deniz |
Keywords: | programming: dynamic |
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