Permissible delay in payment basically termed as “Trade credit financing” and in the present business scenario it has become a popular trend to attract the retailers by offering some interest free period by suppliers/wholesalers to increase the sales. The phenomenon of trade credit has drawn attention of many researches for last decay.In this work, for the development of model we have considere...

The allocation of cost savings is very important for the success of the joint relationship between the buyer and vendor in supply chain management. This paper develops integrated models with permissible delay in payments for determining the optimal replenishment time interval and replenishment frequency. In addition, the variant pricing strategy is employed to obtain both sides’ cost savings in...

In the current global market, organizations use many promotional tools to increase their sales. One such tool is sales teams’ initiatives or promotional policies, i.e., free gifts, discounts, packaging, etc. This phenomenon motivates the retailer/or buyer to order a large inventory lot so as to take full benefit of promotional policies. In view of this the present paper considers a two-warehous...

This paper is concerned with a generalization of classical inventory models (with xed ordering costs) that exhibit (s; S) policies. In our model, the distribution of demands in successive periods is dependent on a Markov chain. The model includes the case of cyclic or seasonal demand. The model is further extended to incorporate some other realistic features such as no ordering periods and stor...