The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal retailer’s lot-sizing decisions under partial payments delay within the economic order quantity (EOQ) framework. All previously published models concerned with payments delay assumed that the supplier would offer the retailer fully payments delay. However, in this paper, we assume that the supplier would offer the retailer partial pay...

In spite of its commercial importance and signs of clear concern in public policy arenas, trade credit has not been subjected to systematic, extended analysis in the business ethics literature, even where suppliers as a stakeholder group have been considered. This paper makes the case for serious consideration of the ethics of trade credit and explores the issues surrounding slow payment of deb...

E-commerce development and applications have been bringing the Internet to business and marketing and reforming our current business styles and processes. As Business to Business (B2B) has been a main stream of the e-commerce activities for a decade, business to customer (B2C) is still a new area to explore. Among the business to customer activities, a strong impact is security, i.e., how to pr...

This paper develops a supply chain framework where payments take place with permissible delays. Unlike other studies, the is modelled as closed-loop system, in which returning products incorporated into classical models and full backorder permitted. Among most important research questions order amount of members to maximize Retailer delays profit chains. The study determines portion time interv...

The building construction is a very complex project which requires the collaboration of many participants and various resources. It important to identify mitigate problems in that can hamper performance such as delay, cost overruns, low quality. objective study determine factors projects affect cost, quality, time performance. method used this research Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) analyze...

This study develops an inventory model for determining an optimal ordering policy for non-deteriorating items and time-dependent holding cost with delayed payments permitted by the supplier under inflation and time-discounting. The discounted cash flows approach is applied to study the problem analysis. Mathematical models have been derived under two different situations i.e. case I: The permis...

Working capital management is an essential part of the short-term finance of a firm. With an efficient working capital management, a firm can release capital for more strategic objectives, reduce the financial costs, and improve profitability. The present research studies the relationship of working capital management on performance of firms Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Average Collec...