Business organizations that deal with consumable and perishable items have consistently incurred enormous loss as a result of the nature their goods. The losses direct negative impact on revenues. Unplanned lack precise production prediction models are responsible for this. An appropriate model, developed to guide plan processes will help manufacturers in deciding which product make what quanti...

This paper presents an alternative method to predict the temperature profile in a spatial point of the interior of a refrigerated container with the aim of improving the logistics of perishable goods. A SISO gray-box model in which the organic heat is represented by a non-linear feedback system and the cooling process represented by a linear system is proposed. Parameter adaptation and predicti...

Revenue management (RM) brings rational approaches to pricing for goods and/or services with a limited shelf life. The practice of dynamically pricing a perishable product across different market segments continues to be applied across an ever-increasing set of business arenas. While numerous consulting and software development firms preach the bottom line impacts of RM practice, little effort ...

The standardised freight container was one of the most important innovations of the 20th Century. Containerised cargoes travel from their point of origin to their destination by ship, road and rail as part of a single journey, without unpacking. This simple concept is the key element in cheap, rapid transport by land and sea, and has led to a phenomenal growth in global trade. Likewise, contain...

Rust and Chung should be congratulated on presenting a very nice, indeed limpid, overview and synthesis of much of the services marketing literature. Their review sparked three associations. First, somehow when we weren’t looking, the field of services marketing matured. In the spirit of philosophy of science, perhaps it’s inevitable that while an academic area is forging its identity, the inqu...

In this note, we consider a variation of the economic order quantity (EOQ) model where cumulative holding cost is a nonlinear function of time. This problem has been studied by Weiss (1982), and we here show how it is an approximation of the optimal order quantity for perishable goods, such as milk, and produce, sold in small to medium size grocery stores where there are delivery surcharges due...

The performance of a supply chain depends critically on the coordinating actions and decisions undertaken by the trading partners. The sharing of product and process information plays a central role in the coordination and is a key driver for the success of the supply chain. In this paper we propose the concept of “Linked pedigrees” linked datasets, that enable the sharing of traceability infor...

The vehicle routing problem with multiple trips consists in determining the routing of a fleet of vehicles where each vehicle can perform multiple routes during its workday. This problem is relevant in applications where the duration of each route is limited, for example when perishable goods are transported. In this work, we assume that a fixed-size fleet of vehicles is available and that it m...