{"id":35003,"date":"2013-12-11T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2013\/12\/short-sweet-the-groff-process\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:41:07","slug":"short-sweet-the-groff-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-sweet-the-groff-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Short & sweet: The Groff process"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lot-sizing method according to Groff, published in 1979, is a further development of the Andler method and is based on the insight that the minimum of the total costs from inventory costs on the one hand and setup costs on the other is where the marginal setup costs correspond to the marginal inventory costs.<\/p>\n

You can reduce set-up costs in production by increasing the batch sizes produced. However, this means that you have to increase your stocks of raw materials and finished goods – which results in higher warehousing costs. As with all methods for calculating an economical batch size, you also use the Groff method to balance the batch size against storage and set-up costs, so that you have the lowest possible total costs (see diagram).
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\nTo be able to use the procedure, you need to know the following parameters:<\/p>\n