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An exact column-generation approach for the lot-type design problem

Optimization and Control 2020-08-07 v2

Abstract

We consider a fashion discounter distributing its many branches with integral multiples from a set of available lot-types. For the problem of approximating the branch and size dependent demand using those lots we propose a tailored exact column generation approach assisted by fast algorithms for intrinsic subproblems, which turns out to be very efficient on our real-world instances as well as on random instances.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06062,
  title  = {An exact column-generation approach for the lot-type design problem},
  author = {Miriam Kießling and Sascha Kurz and Jörg Rambau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06062},
  year   = {2020}
}

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36 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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