Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Porras Musalem, E. Author-Name-Last: Porras Musalem Author-Name-First: Eric Author-Name: Dekker, R. Author-Name-Last: Dekker Author-Name-First: Rommert Author-Person: pde16 Title: New Bounds for the Joint Replenishment Problem: Tighter, but not always better Abstract: In this paper we present new bounds on the basic cycle time for optimal methods to solve the JRP. They are tighter than the ones reported in Viswanathan [7]. We carry out extensive numerical experiments to compare them and to investigate the computational complexity. Creation-Date: 2005-07-31 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/6914/ei2005-18.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:eureir Number: EI 2005-18 Keywords: bounds, computational complexity, joint replenishment problem Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:6914