The allocation of cost savings is very important for the success of the joint relationship between the buyer and vendor in supply chain management. This paper develops integrated models with permissible delay in payments for determining the optimal replenishment time interval and replenishment frequency. In addition, the variant pricing strategy is employed to obtain both sides’ cost savings in...

The context of delays significantly affects delay responsibility. Among other things, recoverable damages for a delay should be related to the timing of the corresponding delay and its effect on indirect costs. This paper presents an alternative and integrated approach for quantifying and apportioning delay responsibility. It considers the context of a delay in terms of its timing and the degre...

Delay discounting-often referred to as hyperbolic discounting in the financial literature-is defined by a consistent preference for smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, and by failure of future consequences to curtail current consummatory behaviors. Previous research demonstrates (1) excessive delay discounting among individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

Abstract Following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. The current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. Traditionally, patie...

articles 305 through to 314 in the islamic punishment law are about agheleh (the party responsible for the minor perpetrator of murber): definition of agheleh, payment of bloud money by agheleh for commiting purely accidental murder, cases in which blood money is up to agheleh and… . why agheleh should be taken responsible for such payment is a question brought up after the ratification of the ...

This study examines how the timing of waste disposal fee collection affects producer’s choice built-in product durability and social welfare in a durable-goods monopoly model. We categorize policies into two: advance (ADF) policy (DF) policy. show that DF has two opposing effects on durability. Firstly, gives producer an incentive to increase order delay households’ discount future payments (th...

The construction sector contributes to a country's development by providing real solutions human needs, improving the gross domestic product (GDP)and job opportunities. Besides numerous benefits, industry is resource-driven and faces many challenges. One of challenges complete project on time within budget that momentous for client, consultant, contractor. However, cost overrun are most common ...