| Article ID: | iaor200667 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 486 |
| End Page Number: | 496 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Wagelmans Albert P.M., Heuvel Wilco van den |
| Keywords: | planning |
We argue that the superior performance of a recent method for lot-sizing in a rolling horizon scheme is to a large extent due to the assumption that quite accurate future demand estimates are available. We show that other methods, including a straightforward one, can use this information just as effectively.