In particular business transactions, the supplier usually provides an admissible delay in settlement to its vendor encourage further sales. Additionally, demand for commodity is inversely proportional function of sales price, which non-linear and, some situations, a holding cost rises over time. Moreover, many goods often deteriorate consistently and shall not be sold after their expiration dat...

Auctions for perishable goods such as internet ad inventory need to make real-time allocationand pricing decisions as the supply of the good arrives in an online manner, without knowing theentire supply in advance. These allocation and pricing decisions get complicated when buyershave some global constraints. In this work, we consider a multi-unit model where buyers haveglob...

The Internet of Things aims to connect networked information systems and real-world business processes. Technologies, such as barcodes, radio transponders (RFID) and wireless sensor networks, which are directly attached to physical items and assets transform objects into Smart Items. These Smart Items deliver the data to realize the accurate real-time representation of ’things’ within the infor...

Why are retailers less likely to vary sale prices of food products when the price paid to the farmer falls than when it rises? As far as perishable goods are concerned, this behavior is usually related to the retailer’s bargaining power. With a view to analyzing the question in greater depth, this study presents a simplified framework considering an ideal scenario in which the retailer wishes t...

This paper examines the rationale underlying periodic price promotions, or sales, for perishable food products by supermarket retailers. Whereas previous studies explain sales in a single-product context as arising from informational, storage cost, or demand heterogeneity, this study focuses on the central role of retailers as multi-product sellers of complementary goods. By offering a larger n...

Meat and meat products are an important component of the daily diet. Nevertheless, they are perishable goods and are prone to microbial contamination, which leads to an increased risk to the health of consumers as well as economic losses in the meat industry. Fermentation has been used for thousands of years to preserve meat. As a result of extensive biochemical reactions occurring in meat duri...

E-commerce is one of the few sectors in the current Dutch economy that is still experiencing substantial growth. This growing industry faces two key challenges: international expansion and the phasing out of warehouses. Dynamic pricing can aid in meeting those challenges. However, this is currently only available as tailor made solutions for companies with big IT development budgets. In this pa...

In daily life, vitamins fruits and vegetables play a very important role in human life. The farmer produces grains or huge quantities. Due to lack of storage problem suffers. It is necessary store all these things special warehouse. Thus, improper essential meet the increasing demands. Storage time fruit quality are greatly influenced by environmental factors. Therefore, it for environment perf...

In the production of perishable goods particular stress is often given to performance indi cators generally less critical in such manufacturing settings as metal cutting or mechan ical electronic assembly For instance in food or biochemical productions a prominent interest of the producer is to reduce the time from distribution to the so called best before end A scheduling problem with a goal o...

Given a set of users with known demands, a set of suppliers with known supplies, and known costs of shipping between suppliers and users, the Bottleneck Single Source Transportation is that of assigning the users to the suppliers so that the following conditions are satisfied: (i) the demand of each user is satisfied by a single supplier; (ii) the amount supplied by each supplier does not excee...