“…In the two models, scholars made efforts to cope with the demand in different ways. For EOQ model, scholars always adopted a consumption rate (Yu et al, 2015;Priyan et al, 2015;Ravanshadnia and Ghanbari, 2014) which is more relevant to manufacture than construction because needs are constantly changing. As for DPM, some take the demand of materials as a fuzzy variable (Xu et al, 2013), setting parameter to denote or calculate the demand, others take it a random variable of normal distribution (Awudu and Zhang, 2013) or a Markov process (Shin and Lee, 2015;Shin and Lee, 2016).…”