{"id":35244,"date":"2018-12-18T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2018\/12\/short-and-sweet-minimum-lot-size\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:06:26","slug":"short-and-sweet-minimum-lot-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-and-sweet-minimum-lot-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and sweet: Minimum lot size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After explaining the &#8220;fixed lot size&#8221; in the last issue, we now continue with a further specification:<\/p>\n<p>When determining lot sizes for production or procurement in an MRP process, the &#8220;minimum lot size&#8221; can be used as a guard rail. If a lot-sizing procedure determines a lot size that is below the minimum lot size, the MRP lot size is increased to the minimum lot size. Minimum lot sizes can be used to ensure that a production or procurement quantity is not below a technically required or economically desired value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our tip:<\/strong> Check the minimum lot sizes at least twice a year to ensure that they are not set too high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After explaining the &#8220;fixed lot size&#8221; in the last issue, we now continue with a further specification: When determining lot sizes for production or procurement in an MRP process, the &#8220;minimum lot size&#8221; can be used as a guard rail. If a lot-sizing procedure determines a lot size that is below the minimum lot size,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1721,1722,1758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planning-disposition","category-production-control","category-scm-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244","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=35244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}