economic order quantity

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economic order quantity

That quantity derived from a mathematical technique used to determine the optimum (lowest) total variable costs required to order and hold inventory.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Sana [19] analyzes a stochastic EOQ (economic order quantity) model over finite time horizon where demand is random price sensitive.
So we determine Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) to minimize total cost of inventory e.g., holding cost, order cost, and shortage cost.
Potato flakes sales are likely to grow on the efforts of modern trade retailers in maintaining their fill rate above safety stock, for balancing the inventory across the economic order quantity. Supremacy of modern trade in the potato flakes market is foreseen to prevail, despite relatively slower sales conversion estimated for the period, 2018 to 2028, according to the study.
Fuzzy Set Theoretical Interpretation of Economic Order Quantity. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
The modification also provides $660,989,000 in economic order quantity funding for procurement of material and equipment that has completed formal hardware qualification testing for the F-35 program for use in procurement contracts to be awarded for the F-35 program low rate initial production Lots 13 and 14 for the U.S.
You can get more for your money with multi-year buys, or to a lesser extent, block buys and procuring at the economic order quantity.
[18] reformulated the classical economic order quantity model as a multiobjective problem taking sustainability concerns into account.
Khalilpourazari and Pasandideh [18] studied a multi-item multiconstrained Economic Order Quantity model with nonlinear unit holding cost and partial backordering.
Conventional Wisdom: Economic Order Quantity should be used whenever possible because it is optimal
Our theories applied in the case of the economic order quantity are influenced by the fact that the customer demands are not completely known, and disturbances can occur in our processes that together create an uncertainty regarding the intensity of demands for purchased parts and the development of the stock level.
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