Economic Packaging Frequency of Jointly Replenished Items having Interdependent Packaging Set-up Cost

Abstract

The method described in this paper is applicable to the batch processing industry where a batch of a product is packaged into several container sizes immediately after manufacture. A packaging set-up is required whenever the unpackaged product is packaged into a particular packaging size, and the packaging set-up cost for each size depends on the preceding size packaged. An example involving four packaging sizes has been solved to illustrate the method.