Title
A note on "quality improvement and setup reduction in the joint economic lot size model
Abstract
In a recent paper, Affisco et al. [J.F. Affisco, M.J. Paknejad, F. Nasri, Quality improvement and setup reduction in the joint economic lot size model, European Journal of Operations Research 142 (2002) 497–508] propose a quality-adjusted joint economic lot size model that considers investments in quality improvement and setup cost reduction. In particular, they consider a single-vendor, single-buyer, deterministic demand economic lot-sizing problem, and they investigate the potential impact of economic investments in the vendor’s quality improvement and setup cost reduction efforts on the system-wide costs. However, the particular form of the investment function that they use to represent the cost of investments in quality improvement does not represent actual practice in many industries. Hence, in this note, we develop modified models for quality improvement and simultaneous quality improvement and setup cost reduction using a modified form of the investment function. Our fundamental results and conclusions are substantially different than those in Affisco et al. (2002).
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.ejor.2006.07.014
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Inventory,Quality,Joint economic lot size model
Economic impact analysis,Economic model,Inversion (meteorology),Vendor,Operations research,Investment function,Cost reduction,Mathematics,Quality management,Operations management,Quality assurance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
182
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.74
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xingchu Liu190.74
Sila Çetinkaya214413.01