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 ...

This paper designs a mathematical model for supply chain network design problem including plants, distributors and customers in fuzzy environment. Each plant and distributor has several levels capacities. A multi-mode demand strategy is considered for the customers where only one of the modes is to be selected for each customer. Considering the acceptance degree of fuzzy constraints violated, a...

Order Acceptance and Scheduling at a Make-to-Order System Using Revenue Management. (August 2006) Anshu Jalora, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; M.E., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Brett A. Peters Make-to-order (MTO) systems have been traditionally popular in manufacturing industries that either seek to provide greater variety to their customers or ...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of implementing operating budgeting in shiraz municipality. method: the population of this study was consisted of four groups of individuals who were aware of the various phases of budgeting in shiraz municipality including: (1) senior managers and administrative and financial assistants, (2) financial managers along with ac...

We say that a mechanism is harmless if no student can ever misreport his preferences so that he does not hurt but someone else. We consider a large class of rules which includes the Boston, the agent-proposing deferred acceptance, and the school-proposing deferred acceptance mechanisms (sDA). In this large class, the sDA happens to the unique harmless mechanism. We next provide two axiomatic ch...

ed Traditional Mail Order Speech Act Face-to-face Invitation Store display Catalogue or to treat advertisement Offer Selection of Filling out and merchandise and posting the order presentation form, or requesting to cashier item over the phone Acceptance Cashier accepts Delivery of payment goods 82 Signalling Intentions and Obliging Behavior Online cent of mail order purchases. Merchants could ...

Whether the inter-state and sub-national tensions over transboundary waters will lead to greater conflict or increased cooperation remains a hotly debated issue. Most work on the subject situates transboundary water conflict and transboundary water cooperation at opposing ends of a continuum. The examination of either conflict or cooperation, we argue, refutes the reality of the vast majority o...