Tamil Nadu had almost 900 FPOs at that time, with more than 50% of them dealing non-perishable products in various forms. Each the highest potential to grow, but only a few were performing well, while others not. While observing them, there some factors differentiated well-performing from other yet perform well. The study aimed find influenced performance Farmer's Producer Organizations. Many i...

We consider inventory systems of “perishable” goods. Perishable goods cannot be carried from one period to another. Examples of perishable goods include newspaper, Christmas tree, and many grocery items like milk and banana. Here, a period could be one day, or one week, or any time frame that is appropriate in the application context. Suppose that a retailer sells a particular perishable produc...

Inventory control in perishable products supply chain is one of the biggest challenges today, especially for medicines and blood products supply chain. Shortage can increase the mortality risk at hospitals, on the contrary, high levels of inventory could generate wastage of these resources. This paper studies the problem of inventory control and distribution of blood products. This study determ...

The transition to sustainable food supply chain management has brought new key logistical aims such as reducing food waste and environmental impacts of operations in the supply chain besides the traditional cost minimization objective. Traditional assumptions of constant distribution costs between nodes, unlimited product shelf life and deterministic demand used in the Inventory Routing Problem...

We examine a special class of dynamic pricing and advertising models for the sale of perishable goods, including marginal unit costs and inventory holding costs. The time horizon is assumed to be finite and we allow several model parameters to be dependent on time. For the stochastic version of the model, we derive closed-form expressions of the value function as well as of the optimal pricing ...

Purpose Current online business development redistributes last-mile logistics (LML) from consumer to retailer and producer. This paper identifies how empirical LML research has used defined logistic performance measures for key grocery industry actors. Using a multi-actor perspective on performance, the authors discuss coordination issues important optimising at system level. Design/methodology...

This paper studies the seller’s optimal pricing policies for a family of substitute perishable products. The seller aims to maximize her expected cumulative revenues over a finite selling horizon. At each demand epoch, the arriving customer observes the set of substitute products with positive inventory together with their prices. Based on this information as well as the customer’s own budget c...

Pharmaceutical products are a kind of perishable products. They will lose potency over time, especially if exposed to heat. And their quality is related to human health and life safety. The Pharmaceutical products should be kept at the correct temperature during the process of the supply chain, and it is necessary to carry out monitoring and tracking to the whole process. Focusing on this probl...