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

• Miriam Kießling ^[1] ; Sascha Kurz ^[1] ; Jörg Rambau ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bayreuth

     University of Bayreuth

     Kreisfreie Stadt Bayreuth, Alemania

     
• Localización: Top, ISSN-e 1863-8279, ISSN 1134-5764, Vol. 29, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 741-780
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.