The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the retailer’s inventory policy under two levels of trade credit to reflect the supply chain management situation. In this paper, we assume that the retailer has the powerful decision-making right. So, we extend the assumption that the retailer can obtain the full trade credit offered by the supplier and the retailer just offers the partial trade...

Indeed, one of the …rst lessons one learns from studying a variety of hypothetical models is that the problem of economic stabilization is, even in principle, an extremely intricate one, and that a much more thorough investigation of both theoretical principles and empirical relationships would be needed before detailed policy recommendations could be justi…ed.”A. W. Phillips (1957, reprinted 1...

This paper describes how the proper priority structure of non-linear goal programming (NLGP) model can be selected for obtaining economic order quantity(EOQ) of multi-item inventory problems. In the solution process, sensitivity analysis of the priority under the given weight structure of goals has been performed. A set of solution is obtained. From the solutions, the ideal solution is identifi...

ABSTRACT In this paper, we study a deterministic inventory model for deteriorating items under time-dependent partial backlogging. Though lot of factors involving inventory affect the demand, among them time and stock are the most important factors. Therefore, we consider here the combined stock and time varying demand to make the theory more applicable in practice. We study the effects time de...

Abstract The model describes an EOQ model with time-varying deterioration, partial backlogging which depends on the length of the waiting time for the next replenishment, linearly time-varying demand function over a finite time horizon and variable replenishment cycle. The model is solved analytically to obtain the optimal solution of the problem. It is illustrated with the help of a numerical ...

We consider a stochastic fluid EOQ-type model with demand rates that operate in a two-state random environment. This environment alternates between exponentially distributed periods of high demand and generally distributed periods of low demand. The inventory level starts at some level q, and decreases linearly at rate a during the periods of high demand, and at rate b < a at periods of low dem...

We review historical patterns of "economic geography" for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that explain the location of economic activities at one scale many not apply to other scales. We consider the p...

The main purpose of this paper wants to investigate the optimal retailer’s lot-sizing policy with two warehouses under partially permissible delay in payments within the economic order quantity (EOQ) framework. In this paper, we want to extend that fully permissible delay in payments to the supplier would offer the retailer partially permissible delay in payments. That is, the retailer must mak...

An order level inventory system for deteriorating items has been developed with demand rate as a ramp type function of time. The finite production rate is proportional to the demand rate and deterioration rate is time proportional. The unit production cost is inversely proportional to the demand rate. The model with no shortage case in inventory is first solved. The inventory shortage is discus...