scholarly journals Lot-sizing problem with several production centers

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklina Maria Bragion de Toledo ◽  
André Luís Shiguemoto

In this paper, a case study is carried out concerning the lot-sizing problem involving a single item production planning in several production centers that do not present capacity constraints. Demand can be met with backlogging or not. This problem results from simplifying practical problems, such as the material requirement planning (MRP) system and also lot-sizing problems with multiple items and limited production capacity. First we propose an efficient implementation of a forward dynamic programming algorithm for problems with one single production center. Although this does not reduce its complexity, it has shown to be rather effective, according to computational tests. Next, we studied the problem with a production environment composed of several production centers. For this problem two algorithms are implemented, the first one is an extension of the dynamic programming algorithm for one production center and the second one is an efficient implementation of the first algorithm. Their efficiency are shown by computational testing of the algorithms and proposals for future research are presented.

2010 ◽  
Vol 102-104 ◽  
pp. 791-795
Author(s):  
Neng Min Wang ◽  
Zheng Wen He ◽  
Qiu Shuang Zhang ◽  
Lin Yan Sun

Dynamic lot sizing problem for systems with bounded inventory and remanufacturing was addressed. The demand and return amounts are deterministic over the finite planning horizon. Demands can be satisfied by manufactured new items, but also by remanufactured returned items. In production planning, there can be situations where the ability to meet customer demands is constrained by inventory capacity rather than production capacity. Two different limited inventory capacities are considered; there is either bounded serviceables inventory or bounded returns inventory. For the two inventory case, we present exact, polynomial time dynamic programming algorithm based on the idea of Teunter R, et al. (2006).


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 689
Author(s):  
José M. Gutiérrez ◽  
Beatriz Abdul-Jalbar ◽  
Joaquín Sicilia ◽  
Inmaculada Rodríguez-Martín

Efficient algorithms for the economic lot-sizing problem with storage capacity are proposed. On the one hand, for the cost structure consisting of general linear holding and ordering costs and fixed setup costs, an dynamic programming algorithm is introduced, where is the number of time periods. The new approach induces an accurate partition of the planning horizon, discarding most of the infeasible solutions. Moreover, although there are several algorithms based on dynamic programming in the literature also running in quadratic time, even considering more general cost structures and assumptions, the new solution uses a geometric technique to speed up the algorithm for a class of subproblems generated by dynamic programming, which can now be solved in linearithmic time. To be precise, the computational results show that the average occurrence percentage of this class of subproblems ranges between 13% and 45%, depending on both the total number of periods and the percentage of storage capacity availability. Furthermore, this percentage significantly increases from 13% to 35% as the capacity availability decreases. This reveals that the usage of the geometric technique is predominant under restrictive storage capacities. Specifically, when the percentage of capacity availability is below 50%, the average running times are on average 100 times faster than those when this percentage is above 50%. On the other hand, an on-line array searching method in Monge arrays can be used when the costs are non-speculative costs.


2010 ◽  
Vol 102-104 ◽  
pp. 920-925
Author(s):  
Neng Min Wang ◽  
Zheng Wen He ◽  
Lin Yan Sun

This paper addresses a dynamic lot sizing problem with mixed returning items and disposals and bounded inventory. The returning items mean that returns are in good enough condition to re-enter the inventory supply stream. The producing, the holding, backlogging and disposals cost functions are concave cost functions. Furthermore, backlogging level and inventory level at each period is limited. The goal is to minimize the total cost of production, inventory holding/backlogging and disposal. A dynamic programming algorithm with complexity O(T3) is developed to solve this model, where T is the length of the planning horizon.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuli Zhang ◽  
Shiji Song ◽  
Cheng Wu ◽  
Wenjun Yin

The stochastic uncapacitated lot-sizing problems with incremental quantity discount have been studied in this paper. First, a multistage stochastic mixed integer model is established by the scenario analysis approach and an equivalent reformulation is obtained through proper relaxation under the decreasing unit order price assumption. The proposed reformulation allows us to extend the production-path property to this framework, and furthermore we provide a more accurate characterization of the optimal solution. Then, a backward dynamic programming algorithm is developed to obtain the optimal solution and considering its exponential computation complexity in term of time stages, we design a new rolling horizon heuristic based on the proposed property. Comparisons with the commercial solver CPLEX and other heuristics indicate better performance of our proposed algorithms in both quality of solution and run time.


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