Article ID: | iaor200667 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 486 |
End Page Number: | 496 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Wagelmans Albert P.M., Heuvel Wilco van den |
Keywords: | planning |
We argue that the superior performance of a recent method for lot-sizing in a rolling horizon scheme is to a large extent due to the assumption that quite accurate future demand estimates are available. We show that other methods, including a straightforward one, can use this information just as effectively.