Procurement - Distribution Coordination in Supply Chain under Quantity Discounts & Varying Truck Load Policies Sandhya Makkar

In today’s era of supply chain, growing competence among suppliers together with well organized transportation networks making it more versatile and ensures better communication between buyers and suppliers with more cost effective movement of goods in shortest possible times. Suppliers frequently offers discount schedules based on all units model, which divides the range of possible order quantities into intervals with progressively lower unit costs , [Rubin & Benton, (2003)]. Transporters these days are looking for more innovative ways to attract customers by thriving to satisfy their ever increasing demand of cost effective transportation by offering freight policies such as truck load (TL) and less than truck load (LTL).