in this paper, the study deals with the lead time and setup reduction problem in the vendor-purchaser integrated inventory model. the cost of capital (i.e., opportunity cost) is one of the key factors in making the inventory and investment decisions. lead time is an important element in any inventory system. the proposed model is presents an integrated inventory model with controllable lead tim...

The National Health Insurance System (JKN) has social and equity insurance principles aiming participants receive basic health benefits. This raises must-have other requirements for circulated medicine, namely availability accessibility. Thus, this must meet the elements of safety, efficacy/ benefits, good quality, market availability, easy However, drug shortages problem still occurs ranks 3rd...

in paper (2004) chang studied an inventory model under a situation in which the supplier provides the purchaser with a permissible delay of payments if the purchaser orders a large quantity. tripathi (2011) also studied an inventory model with time dependent demand rate under which the supplier provides the purchaser with a permissible delay in payments. this paper is motivated by chang (2004) ...

Specifying software quality for a product that has still to be developed is difficult for the purchaser or supplier. The purchaser needs to understand clearly and be able to communicate his/her requirements for the product to be developed. The supplier needs to be certain he/she understands the requirement, and is able to assess with confidence whether it is possible to provide the product with...

Introduction ................... ...... 1546 I. Health Insurance Purchasing ............................ 1552 A. General Background ................................. 1552 B. Purchasing Alliance Activity: The California Experience .......................................... 1554 C. Purchasing Alliance Activity: Other States ........... 1556 II. Antitrust Analysis of Collaborative Purchaser Activi...

The purpose of this article is to present and solve the Biobjective Travelling Purchaser Problem, which consists in determining a route through a subset of markets in order to collect a set of products, minimizing the travel distance and the purchasing cost simultaneously. The most convenient purchase of the product in the visited markets is easily computed once the route has been determined. T...