This paper assumes that the demand is a Poisson random process, the inventory strategy is (s, S), each demand amount Q* is same, scale of the economic transport quantity Q0=p Q* (p is a positive integer), in which Q* is the optimal order quantity of joint pricing used by the supplier and retailer, and the supplier will be entitled to ignore small group of temporary order bills to accumulate the...

As an integrated part of a supply contract, trade credit has intrinsic connections with supply chain contracting and inventory management. Using a stylized model that explicitly captures the interaction of firms’ operations decisions and financial risks, this paper attempts to develop a deeper understanding of trade credit from an operational perspective. Revolving around the question of what r...

This paper proposes an integrated network design model for a post-distribution cross-docking strategy, comprising multi product production facilities with shared production resources, capacitated cross docks with setup cost and customer zones with time windows constraints. The model is dynamic in terms of time-varying uncertain demands, whereas uncertainty is expressed with scenario approach an...

This paper addresses the integrated production-inventory-distribution decisions in a three-echelon supply chain (SC) network. The studied SC network is composed of a raw material processor that supplies different types of processed raw materials to a set of manufacturing facilities which in turn deliver their end products to a set of retailers facing external demand from end customers. A mixed ...

We propose a novel algorithmic framework to solve an integrated planning and scheduling problem in supply chain management. This problem involves the integration of an inventory management problem and the vehicle routing problem with time windows, both of which are known to be NP-hard. Under this framework, algorithms that solve the underlying sub-problems collaborate rigorously yet in a comput...

In this paper, a fuzzy mathematical programming model is proposed to address integrated production and routing planning decisions which considers uncertain production and inventory capacities, as well as production, setup, inventory holding and transport costs. This proposal considers flexible constraints and the lack of knowledge related to the previous input parameters which are modelled by u...

The principal challenge in inventory control in supply chains consists of planning for a set of autonomous enterprises under information asymmetry and disparate, potentially conflicting objectives. In this paper, we investigate four different computational approaches to cope with this challenge: the decomposition, the integrated, the coordinated, and the bilevel programming approaches. Beyond t...