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Linear Programming Lecture Notes - Penn State Personal Web Server

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he wants to know how many shamrocks he should make and store on each day to minimize<br />

his cost.<br />

To determine an answer to this problem, note that we have time as a parameter: time runs<br />

over three days. Let xt be the number of shamrocks McLearey makes on day t (t = 1, 2, 3)<br />

and let yt be the number of shamrocks McLearey stores on day t. There is also a parameter<br />

y0 = 10, the number of shamrocks left over from last year.<br />

McLearey’s total cost (in cents) can the be written as:<br />

(6.35) z = 200x1 + 200x2 + 200x3 + y1 + y2 + 5y3<br />

Additionally, there are some constraints linking production, storage and demand. These<br />

constraints are depicted graphically in Figure 6.2. Multiperiod inventory models operate<br />

on a principle of conservation of flow. Manufactured goods and previous period inventories<br />

flow into the box representing each period. Demand and next period inventories flow out of<br />

the box representing each period. This inflow and outflow must be equal to account for all<br />

shamrocks produced. This is depicted below:<br />

Initial Inventory<br />

Enters<br />

y0<br />

x1 x2 x3<br />

Day 1<br />

Manufactured Causes Shamrocks to Enter Boxes<br />

y1 y2 y3<br />

Remaining<br />

Shamrocks<br />

goto Inventory<br />

Day 2 Day 3<br />

d1 d2 d3<br />

Demand Causes Shamrocks to Leave Boxes<br />

Final Inventory<br />

Leaves<br />

Figure 6.2. Multiperiod inventory models operate on a principle of conservation<br />

of flow. Manufactured goods and previous period inventories flow into the box<br />

representing each period. Demand and next period inventories flow out of the box<br />

representing each period. This inflow and outflow must be equal to account for all<br />

production.<br />

This means that:<br />

(6.36) yt−1 + xt = yt + dt ∀t<br />

This equation says that at period t the amount of inventory carried over from period t − 1<br />

plus amount of shamrocks produced in period t must be equal to the total demand in period<br />

t plus any left over shamrocks at the end of period t. Clearly we also know that xt ≥ 0 for all<br />

t, since you cannot make a negative number of shamrocks. However, by also requiring yt ≥ 0<br />

for all t, then we assert that our inventory can never be negative. A negative inventory is a<br />

backorder. Thus by saying that yt ≥ 0 we are also satisfying the requirement that McLearey<br />

satisfy his demand in each period. Note, when t = 1, then yt−1 = y0, which is the parameter<br />

we defined above.<br />

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