Production Lot Sizing with Material Handling Cost Considerations.

Abstract

The determination of production lot sizes and the assignment of storage space in a warehouse for the produced items are usually treated as two separate problems: The former providing input (space needed) to the latter. In this paper, we treat the decision problems as one with the objective of minimizing total setup, inventory carrying, and warehouse material handling cost. We treat the minimum material handling cost as a continuous function of the lot sizes and develop an algorithm for finding locally optimal solutions of the derived optimization problem. Computational experience is provided and applications to automated warehousing systems are discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA081492

Entities

People

  • T. J. Lowe
  • Thom J. Hodgson

Organizations

  • University of Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Inventory
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Notation
  • Numbers
  • Production
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Storage
  • Storage Racks
  • Systems Engineering
  • Travel Time

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Operations Research

Technology Areas

  • Space