Afentakis, Panayotis; Gavish, Bezalel; Karmarkar, Uday - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 2, pp. 222-239
The scheduling of lot sizes in multistage production environments is a fundamental problem in many Material Requirements Planning Systems. Many heuristics have been suggested for this problem with varying degrees of success. Research to date on obtaining optimal solutions has been limited to...