EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, cilt.179, sa.1, ss.114-123, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
We present a thorough analysis of the economic production quantity model with shortages under a general inventory cost rate function and piecewise linear concave production costs. Consequently, an effective solution procedure, particularly useful for an approximation scheme, is proposed. A computational study is appended to illustrate the performance of the proposed solution procedure. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.