Valid inequalities and separation for capacitated economic lot sizing

  • Authors:
  • Yves Pochet

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A family of valid inequalities for the capacitated economic lotsizing problem is given. In the case of equal capacities, studied in more detail, a large subclass of the inequalities defines facets. A heuristic for the separation problem, based on these inequalities, is defined for use in a cutting plane algorithm. We give computational results for 12 and 24 periods test problems and for both the equal and different capacity cases. We also indicate how to extend this class of inequalities for more general capacitated fixed charge networks.