| Article ID: | iaor20072699 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 105 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 293 |
| End Page Number: | 296 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Minner Stefan |
| Keywords: | economic order |
A different approach to obtain the economic order quantity and several extensions without taking derivatives is presented. In contrast to previous contributions to this discussion, cost comparisons in a finite horizon and analyzing the limiting behavior are used rather than algebraic manipulations of the average cost function and comparison of coefficients.