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Business Definition for: EBQ

economic batch quantity: the optimum batch size for the manufacture of an item or component, at the lowest cost. The batch size is a tradeoff between unit costs that increase with batch size and those that decrease. The point of lowest combined or total cost indicates the most economic batch size for production.
Also known as Economic Lot Quantity
See also Economic Order Quantity

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