Question: The data below shows the demand ( over time ) for a particular product that has to be manufactured in - house.Week 1 2 3

The data below shows the demand (over time) for a particular product that has to be manufactured in-house.Week123456Demand125210170135160185So in week 2(for example) demand is forecast to be 210 units. Currently there are 350 units of the product in stock. The lead time between releasing an order to the in-house shop floor and producing a finished product is one week.Any orders to the shop floor have to be either for 100 or 300 units. The stock holding cost is 2.3 per unit per week and the cost of placing an order (of any size) with the shop floor is 130.Formulate the problem of deciding how best to meet customer demand as an integer linear program involving zero-one (binary) variables.

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