In Inventory control, what the assumptions underlying the Economic Order Quantity(EOQ)
Economic order quantity is defined as the ordering quantity which minimises the balance of cost between inventory holding costs and re-order costs.Underlying assumptions in an Economic Order Quantity model are:
Note that the rationale of EOQ ignores buffer stocks which are maintained to cater for variations in lead time and demand. |
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