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A dispute on James R. Evans' “an efficient implementation of the Wagner Whitin algorithm for dynamic lot‐sizing,” journal of operations management, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1985
Author(s) -
Chong Philip S.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.649
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1873-1317
pISSN - 0272-6963
DOI - 10.1016/0272-6963(87)90004-0
Subject(s) - sizing , context (archaeology) , computer science , heuristic , operations research , algorithm , industrial engineering , operations management , artificial intelligence , economics , mathematics , history , engineering , art , archaeology , visual arts
Abstract This note disputes several observations made by James R. Evans' article, “An Efficient Implementation of the Wagner‐Whitin (WW) Algorithm for Dynamic Lot‐Sizing,” Journal of Operations Management , Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1985. By testing the algorithm within a micro‐based manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system, the writer of this note shows that WW is still computationally burdensome compared to heuristic methods, particularly within the context of a micro‐based MRP system implementation.