This contribution summarizes recent work in the field of lot sizing and scheduling. The objective is not to give a comprehensive literature survey, but to explain differences of formal models and to provide some first readings recommendations. Our focus is on capacitated, dynamic, and...

Lot sizing certainly belongs to the most established production planning problems. First scientific reports of this subject date from the beginning of the 20th century and at least one chapter about lot sizing can be found in almost every good textbook about production research issues. But, as...

The logic of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) is usually implemented in production planning and control systems and therefore has a major impact on the performance of many real production systems. Much of what practitioners complain about, i.e. long lead times, high work-in-process, and...