economic lot size


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economic lot size

[‚ek·ə′näm·ik ′lät ‚sīz]
(industrial engineering)
The number of units of a product or item to be manufactured at each setup or purchased on each order so as to minimize the cost of purchasing or setup, and the cost of holding the average inventory over a given period, usually annual. Also known as project life.
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Optimizing the economic lot size of a three-stage supply chain with backordering derived without derivatives.
A joint economic lot size model for raw material ordering, manufacturing setup, and finished goods delivering.
Integrated vendor-buyer production and inventory policy: a critical review
1997, Economic lot size model for price-dependent demand under quantity and freight discounts, International Journal of Production Economics, 48(2), 141-155.
An order level EOQ model for deteriorating items in a single warehouse system with price depended demand in non-linear (quadratic) form
Without the existence of the freight rate anomaly, the economic lot size for both plant locations would be 505 units per shipment with a resulting total annual purchase cost of $108,995 and $108,965 for plants I (Falls Church, Virginia) and II (Columbus, Ohio), respectively.
The effect of less-than-truckload rates on the purchase order lot size decision
Often the rate of deterioration is low for many items and there is scarcely any need to consider the deterioration in the determination of economic lot sizes.
An EPQ model for linear deteriorating item with variable holding cost
With the trend to JIT and trying to get down to economic lot sizes of one, having to batch parts and move them from one operation to another certainly creates longer lead times.
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