“…large cost of handling them once… puts an incentive to reorder larger quantities, but reorder less frequently…”

Tim Varelmann · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Tim Varelmann on Mathematical Optimization for Software Engineers

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Add a fixed handling cost per reorder to the objective, creating an incentive to order larger quantities less frequently

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