In the past few decade researches have developed their EOQ models under constant deterioration and constant demand. However, it is not true in actual practice. In this paper, we have established inventory model with exponential time-dependent demand and timedependent time-dependent deterioration. Shortages are allowed. The demand rate and unit production cost both are considered as proportional...

Raw material inventory is a major element of the working capital of many organizations. Hence its proper control is crucial for the profitability of the organization and development of surrounding communities. The sudden unavailability of raw material inventory for production can be a great operational disturbance which results in delivery delays, customer dissatisfaction and loss of market sha...

This paper investigates the optimal inventory replenishment policy for an economic production quantity (EPQ) model with backordering, rework and machine breakdown taking place in stock piling time. A prior paper by Chiu has examined the lot-sizing problem on an imperfect quality EPQ model. Due to another reliability factor random machine breakdown seems to be inevitable in most real world manuf...

M any firms face environments with long manufacturing leadtimes, great product variety, and uncertain, nonstationary demand. A challenge is how to plan production and inventories to provide the best customer service at the least cost. In this paper, we first describe an application at Teradyne in which we implemented an inventory hedge to protect against cyclic demand variability. Based on this...

A important issue in the management of supply chains and manufacturing systems is to control inventory costs at different locations throughout the system while satisfying an end-customer service-level requirement. The challenge involved is to solve a nonlinear constrained optimization problem that captures the key dynamics of a complex production-inventory system. In this paper, we first develo...