Due to the rapid development of technology in recent years, market competition and customer expectations have increased more than ever. In this situation, it is vital for businesses survival to determine the appropriate policy for inventory control, pricing, and routing, and decisions regarding each of them are often made separately. If the products have a perishable nature, it will be more imp...

objective: to investigate the clinical advantage of several prognostic factors for predicting preterm delivery. materials and methods: eighty and six patients with a singleton pregnancy admitted to vali-asr hospital underwent genetic amniocentesis between the 15th and 23th weeks were included in this study. maternal serum c-reactive protein (crp), transvaginal sonographic measurement of cervica...

Sustainability in the supply chain means pushing the supply chain to focus on social, economic and environmental aspects, and addressing the existing problems in the traditional supply chain. Considering the importance of evaluating supply chain networks, especially in the field of perishable commodities, this paper aimed to design a mathematical model for the reverse supply chain of perishable...

Urban population and the trend towards online commerce leads to an increase in delivery solution cities. The growth of transport sector is very harmful environment, being responsible for approximately 40% greenhouse gas emissions European Union. problem aggravated when transporting perishable foodstuffs, as vehicle propulsion engine (VPE) must power not only but also refrigeration unit. This me...

We propose an approximation scheme for two important but difficult single-product inventory systems, specifically, the lost-sales system and the perishable product system. The approach is based on quadratic approximations of cost-to-go functions within the framework of Approximate Dynamic Programming via Linear Programming. We propose heuristics and evaluate their performance against existing h...

An inventory model with 3-variable Weibull distribution demand rate and constant deterioration is developed. The holding cost is constant. Shortages are not allowed. The salient feature of this inventory model is for non-perishable products or deteriorating items. A numerical example has been illustrated using MATLAB to describe the model and the sensitivity analysis of various parameters is ca...