Smoothing Start-Up and Shut-Down Costs: Concave Case

Matthew J. Sobel
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Matthew J. Sobel: Yale University

Management Science, 1970, vol. 17, issue 1, 78-91

Abstract: We consider nonstationary deterministic production smoothing problems with coats for starting and halting production. Inventory holding costs and production costs are assumed to be concave. The algorithms developed for optimal policies exploit known features of the economic lot size problem.

Date: 1970
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