We consider a service facility system with perishable inventory with finite number of servers. Each server having one perishable item for providing service. The arrival of a customer at the system according to independent Poisson Processes with rate  through a single channel. The service time of the customer is exponentially distributed with mean  1/ and the item in stock has exponential life...

Nowadays, many distribution networks deal with the distribution and storage of perishable products. However, distribution network design models are largely based on assumptions that do not consider time limitations for the storage of products within the network. This study develops a model for the design of a distribution network that considers the short lifetime of perishable products. The mod...

The income of the famers has decreased drastically over past years as they do not have proper channel for marketing their produce. This also proved to be factor that favors landlords and money lenders gain possession agricultural products at a very low cost obtain large profit from it. reflects inability farmers righteous main aim our project is organizing uniting under one umbrella, reduce unb...

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...

With the intensification of global warming and the levy of energy tax, more industries are paying attention to energy saving and reduction of carbon footprint. For the food industry, energy cost in the supply chain of perishable food is quite high because of cold-chain transport and storage. Therefore, the efficacies of cold chain management and inventory control are the key factors that increa...

We provide explicit solutions to life-cycle utility maximization problems simultaneously involving dynamic decisions on investments in stocks and bonds, consumption of perishable goods, and the rental and the ownership of residential real estate. House prices, stock prices, interest rates, and the labor income of the decision-maker follow correlated stochastic processes. The preferences of the ...

– This paper derives a good approach to approximating the expected inventory level per unit time for the continuous review perishable inventory system. Three existing approximation approaches are examined and compared with the proposed approach. Three stockout cases, including the full backorder, the partial backorder, and the full lost sales cases, which customers or material users generally u...

We consider a service facility system with perishable inventory with finite number of servers. Each server having one perishable item for providing service. The arrival of a customer at the system according to independent Poisson Processes with rate  through a single channel. The service time of the customer is exponentially distributed with mean  1/ and the item in stock has exponential life...

Currently, several beef processors employ test-and-hold systems for increased quality control of ground beef. In such programs, each lot of product must be tested and found negative for Escherichia coli O157:H7 prior to release of the product into commerce. Optimization of three testing attributes (detection time, specificity, and sensitivity) is critical to the success of such strategies. Beca...

Received: 15/11/2013 Revised: 13/12/2013 Accepted: 16/12/2013 Abstract Osmotic dehydration is a process of water removal by immersion of water containing cellular solids in a concentrated aqueous solution of sugar/ salt. This results in intermediate moisture product with lower water activity. At low water activity, most of the chemical reactions which deteriorate the food as well as the growth ...