{"id":34799,"date":"2005-11-28T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2005\/11\/short-sweet-lot-size\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:57:02","slug":"short-sweet-lot-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-sweet-lot-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Short &amp; sweet: Lot size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The batch size is the number of identical parts that are produced in a common work step or purchased in a common order. At the very least, batch sizes above the basic requirement during the replenishment period can lead to significant increases in stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our tip:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batch size optimization processes are often used to set batch sizes that are too high. Practical experience shows: The total cost curve around the supposedly optimum batch size is often very flat. Even if batch sizes are halved or doubled, the total costs change only slightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The batch size is the number of identical parts that are produced in a common work step or purchased in a common order. At the very least, batch sizes above the basic requirement during the replenishment period can lead to significant increases in stock. Our tip: Batch size optimization processes are often used to set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1723,1721,1758],"tags":[1443,1834,1779,1725],"class_list":["post-34799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inventory-management","category-planning-disposition","category-scm-glossary","tag-beschaffung-en","tag-lot-size","tag-lot-size-optimization","tag-stock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}