English

Computing non-stationary $(s, S)$ policies using mixed integer linear programming

Optimization and Control 2018-09-17 v1

Abstract

This paper addresses the single-item single-stocking location stochastic lot sizing problem under the (s,S)(s, S) policy. We first present a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) formulation for determining near-optimal (s,S)(s, S) policy parameters. To tackle larger instances, we then combine the previously introduced MINLP model and a binary search approach. These models can be reformulated as mixed integer linear programming (MILP) models which can be easily implemented and solved by using off-the-shelf optimisation software. Computational experiments demonstrate that optimality gaps of these models are around 0.3%0.3\% of the optimal policy cost and computational times are reasonable.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08820,
  title  = {Computing non-stationary $(s, S)$ policies using mixed integer linear programming},
  author = {Mengyuan Xiang and Roberto Rossi and Belen Martin-Barragan and S. Armagan Tarim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08820},
  year   = {2018}
}