COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
AT YALE UNIVERSITY

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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 67

"A Few Remarks on the Assortment Problem"

Wieslaw Sadowski

1959

The paper deals with the assortment problem in a particular case — that of structural steel beams. Using the dynamic programming technique we show that this assortment problem is equivalent to the economic lot size problem and also to the routing problem.

See CFP 142