this study considers an eoq inventory model with advance payment policy in a fuzzy situation by employing two types of fuzzy numbers that are trapezoidal and triangular. two fuzzy models are developed here. in the first model the cost parameters are fuzzified, but the demand rate is treated as crisp constant. in the second model, the demand rate is fuzzified but the cost parameters are treated ...

Recently, market globalization and competition have forced companies to find alternative means to boost sales and revenue. The use of the cash flow is increasingly becoming a viable alternative for managers to improve their company’s profitability in a supply chain. In today’s business transactions, a supplier usually asks a manufacturer to pay via the advance-cash-credit (ACC) payment scheme i...

by approval of building advance-sale act in 2010, it is permitted to sell in advance the buildings to be built in future. in this act, certain rights and obligations are provided for the advance-sellers and advance-buyers. the approval of the said act is a development in the law of sale of buildings. amongst them are the requirement for official registration of any building advance-sale, statut...

An economic order quantity model with backordering is investigated under a hybrid payment scheme. The payment scheme, which is also linked to order quantity, involves multiple advance payments as well as delayed payment. Incorporating this payment scheme can efficiently stimulate sales due to applying delayed payment; besides it provides the benefits of advance payment such as controlling the r...