Nowadays, Companies have to deal with an uncertain demand which is more difficult to handle when it has a non-stationary pattern. Simultaneous decrease of customer service and increase of stock costs are the most significant effects of such demand uncertainty. To deal with this issue, inventory optimization models must be adapted to cover a multi-echelon network structure and to consider altern...

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This paper deals with a two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items with time dependent demand and partial backlogging under inflation. It is assumed that deterioration of items follows two-parameter Weibull distribution and demand rate varies exponentially with time. Shortages are allowed and partial backlogging depends on waiting time of next replenishment. A numerical example is pr...

Cell formation (CF) problem is one of the most important decision problems in designing a cellular manufacturing system includes grouping machines into machine cells and parts into part families. Several factors should be considered in a cell formation problem. In this work, robust optimization of a mathematical model of a dynamic cell formation problem integrating CF, production planning and w...

Copyright: © 2016 INFORMS Abstract. We propose and analyze robust optimization models of an inventory management problem, where cumulative purchase, inventory, and shortage costs over n periods are minimized for correlated nonidentically distributed demand. We assume that the means and covariance matrix of stochastic demand are known; the distributions are not needed. We derive closed-form orde...

It is well-known that the production-inventory problem for deteriorating items in supply chain a challenge when deciding on how many products to manufacture obtain maximum total profit. This research work develops an economic production quantity model item under partial trade credit policy considering inflation, effect of reliability factor system, and demand depending price product whose selli...

In practice, the supplier often offers the retailers a trade credit period M and the retailer in turn provides a trade credit period N to her/his customer to stimulate sales and reduce inventory. From the retailer’s perspective, granting trade credit not only increases sales and revenue but also increases opportunity cost (i.e., the capital opportunity loss during credit period) and defau...

Recently, various deterministic inventory models were developed for deteriorating items with the uniform demand pattern (either increasing or decreasing) throughout cycle. However, such types of are not suitable many real business problems. In particular, patterns steady models, ordinarily, rises first, then it becomes static and finally decreases, demands can be portrayed by considering trapez...