In the real world, vague phenomenon is quite common in the production/inventory models. In order to process the vagueness, a production/inventory model that can be more closely related to the real vagueness and can take account of the vague factors that contribute to production costs, is required. The model must be extended or altered to fit in with the fuzzy situation. Since items with imperfe...

In this paper, fuzzy economic order quantity (EOQ) model for inventory system with partial backorder is proposed. The fuzzy total relevance cost of the model is calculated under function principle. The optimal EOQ is derived using median rule. Fuzzy variables are appropriate when the exact information is unavailable. In the proposed model, the optimal solution for the fuzzy EOQ model is higher ...

This paper develops a new simulation method for vendor managed inventory (VMI) model based on fuzzy arithmetic in the supply chain (SC). The traditional VMI model has been successfully used to reduce the ‘‘Bullwhip Effect” in the SC. Thus, in real industry the VMI model can be observed that some variables/ parameters may belong to the uncertain factors. Therefore, the traditional VMI model may ...

In this paper, a fuzzy based inventory model for imperfect quality items has been developed with shortages. The parameters fixed cost; holding cost and shortage cost are considered as fuzzy numbers. We considered the triangular fuzzy number to represents fuzzy parameters. The optimum order quantity is obtained in fuzzy sense with the help of signed distance method. The proposed model is illustr...

Classical deterministic inventory models consider the demand rate to be either constant or time-dependent but independent from the stock status. However, for a certain type of inventory, the demand rate may be in-fluenced by the stock level. Also in many real-life problems, some products such as fruits, vegetables, phar-maceuticals and volatile liquids continuously deteriorate to evaporation, o...

Real-world systems present a variety of challenges to the modeller, not least of which is the problem of uncertainty inherent in their operation. In this research, an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy model is applied to a real-world problem, the goal being to discover a suitable optimisation configuration to enable a search for an inventory plan using the model. To this end, a series of Simulated Annealin...

For the total cost of the inventory without backorder model, if we fuzzify the order quantity, the total demand, the cost of storing and the cost of placing an order as fuzzy numbers then we can obtain the fuzzy total cost. In this paper, we apply the signed distance method to defuzzify the fuzzy total cost and then solve the optimal order quantity.

the real world is full of uncertainties and parameters such as demand cannot be determined exactly. in this case, using crisp (exact) values and statistical methods due to absence of sufficient information, seems unwise. so in this paper, an approach is presented for using fuzzy numbers in continues review policy related decision-making. in this supply chain, there are two enterprises, a and b ...