In this article the coordination of pricing and cooperative advertising decisions in one-manufacturer one-retailer decentralized supply chain with different market power for channel members is studied. The products are both perishable and substitutable. The problem is modeled as a nonlinear bi-level programming problem to consider both retailer and manufacturer decisions about prices and advert...

A significant issue of the supply chain problem is how to integrate different entities. Managing supply chain is a difficult task because of complex integrations, especially when the products are perishable in nature. Little attention has been paid on ordering specific perishable products jointly in uncertain environment with multiple sources and multiple destinations. In this article, we propo...

by Anna-Lena Sachs : Retail Analytics: Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) ISBN : #3319133047 | Date : 2014-12-18 Description : PDF-668c6 | This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scann...

now a days, management and control of perishable inventories is important in many units and industrial enterprises. basically perishable inventory management and control is more complex and challenging than inventories with unlimited lifetime. hence determining the optimal inventory policies for these products is very important.  in this paper, the optimal inventory policy for perishable items ...