Determining Replenishment Lot Size and Shipment Policy for an EPQ Inventory Model with Delivery and Rework

Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón (), Gerardo Treviño-Garza, Ata Allah Taleizadeh and Pandian Vasant

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, vol. 2015, 1-8

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The determination of production-shipment policies for a vendor-buyer system is dealt within this paper. The main objective is to derive the optimal replenishment lot size and shipment policy for an EPQ inventory model with multiple deliveries and rework. This inventory model contains two decision variables: the replenishment lot size and the number of deliveries. Previous researches solve this inventory model considering both variables to be continuous. However, the number of deliveries must be considered as a discrete variable. In this direction, this paper solves the inventory model considering two cases: Case 1: the replenishment lot size as a continuous variable and the number of shipments as a discrete variable and Case 2: the replenishment lot size and the number of shipments as discrete variables. The final results are two simple and easy-to-apply solution procedures to find the optimal values for the replenishment lot size and the number of deliveries for each case.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1155/2015/595498

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