Transshipment in retailing is a practice where one outlet ships its excess inventory to another with shortages. By balancing inventories, transshipment can reduce waste and increase fill rate at the same time. In “Separation of Perishable Inventories Offline Retailing Through Transshipment,” Li, Yu, Du explore idea transshipping perishable goods fixed finite lifetime offline grocery retailing. ...

This article examines a two-commodity continuous review perishable inventory system. The demands are arrived at for each product by independent Markovian arrival processes (MAP). Lifetimes follow an exponential distribution. commodities assumed to be substitutable. If both have reached zero, demand is backlogged up predetermined levels. article’s novelty has been local purchase, which made clea...

We study a perishable inventory system that requires to maintain a fresh and large quantity of inventory at all times. For example, certain pharmaceuticals are kept for emergency preparedness and response operations. We aim to maximize the profit by optimizing the joint problem of the ordering and issuing policies while maintaining a minimum amount of perishable inventory. First, we consider a ...

In the supply chain of perishable food products, large losses are incurred between farm and fork. Given the limited land resources and an ever-growing population, the food supply chain is faced with the challenge of increasing its handling efficiency and minimizing post-harvest food losses. Huge value can be added by optimizing warehouse management systems, taking into account the estimated rem...