Product perishability is a major concern of certain industrial sectors, especially the agro-food industry. This paper investigates the effect of product perishability and retailers’ stockout policy on system total cost, net profit, service level, and average inventory level in a two-echelon inventory–distribution system, and develops an approximate inventory model to these system performance me...

Service sectori growth (e.g., Shugan 1994) and its study suggest that service providers frequently face special problems (e.g., Johnson 1964; Radas and Shugan 1998a, b; Rust, Zahorik, and Keiningham 1995). One such problem is perishability (Parasuraman and Varadarajan 1988). When planes, trains, or ships depart, for example, unused seats are lost forever. Similar problems occur for vacant hotel...

Perishability, a largely unconsidered characteristic of consumer goods, is shown to play an important role in planned multistore shopping behavior. We present a model of consumers as cost minimizing inventory managers, who choose between two stores di!erentiated on location and price, and who purchase perishable and nonperishable goods. We show that the interaction between perishability of good...

Abstract With the vigorous development of e-commerce, digital content consumption has prospered in consumer market. Considering perishability products and negative utility advertisements on users, paper develops a dynamic game model for supply chain with platform an upstream advertiser, obtains optimal (or equilibrium) resource investing, pricing, advertising strategies under centralized decent...

Perishability of agri-food products impacts the economic, environmental, and social aspects supply chains (AFSCs). Product perishability is, usually, considered in tactical operational decisions, but not strategic ones, such as design AFSC. The contribution this paper is that it investigates impact product on an AFSC design. To do so, first, a novel mixed-integer linear programming model propos...