Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85414 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 97-026/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
In most multi-item inventory systems, the ordering costs consist of a major cost and a minor cost for each item included. Applying for every individual item a cyclic inventory policy, where the cycle length is a multiple of some basic cycle time, reduces the major ordering costs. An efficient algorithm to determine the optimal policy of this type is discussed in this paper. It is shown that this algorithm can be used for deterministic multi-item inventory problems, with general cost rate functions and possibly service level constraints, of which the well-known joint replenishment problem is a special case. Some useful results in determining the optimal control parameters are derived, and worked out for piecewise linear cost rate functions. Numerical results for this case show that the algorithm significantly outperforms other solution methods, both in the quality of the solution as in the running time.
Subjects: 
Inventory
Multi-item
Joint replenishment problem
Deterministic demand
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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