The classical economic lot-scheduling problem (ELSP) involves the batch sizing and scheduling of multiple products in a single facility under deterministic conditions over an infinite planning horizon. It is assumed that the products are delivered to customers at continuous rates. In today's...

As the implementation of JIT practice becomes increasingly popular, each echelon in a supply chain tends to carry fewer inventories, and thus the whole supply chain is made more vulnerable to lost sales and/or backorders. The purpose of this paper is to recast the inventory model to be more...

A fundamental premise of the well-known economic lot-scheduling problem (ELSP) is that the finished products are consumed at continuous rates, i.e. their respective cycle inventories are depleted on the basis of unit transactions. In today's supply chains, however, employing complex distribution...