Multi-echelon transaction is a common situation in the supply chain nowadays. This research is to formulate a three-echelon integrated inventory model under defective products, reworking and credit period consideration. An algorithm and numerical analysis are used to observe the effect of defective rate and credit period time to the inventory policy and total profit.

Trade credit financing has become a powerful tool to improve sales & profit in an industry. In general, a supplier/retailer frequently offers trade credit to its credit risk downstream member in order to stimulate their respective sales. This trade credit may either be full or partial depending upon the past profile of the downstream member. Partial trade credit may be offered by the supplier/r...

in this paper, we develop an inventory model with delay in payments for deteriorating items. in our model, retailer who purchases the items enjoys a fixed credit period offered by his/her supplier and, in turn, also offers a credit period to his/her customers in order to promote the market competition. the demand is assumed to be linear function of the retailer's current-stock level. the effect...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Supplier–retailer inventory system Trade credit Defective items Variable production This paper investigates an integrated inventory model with variable production rate and price-sensitive demand rate under two-level trade credit. The model considers two-level trade credit policy in which the retailer receives a full trade credit from its supplier, and offers part...

The present paper aimed at studying the current models of credit portfolio management. There are currently three types of models which consider the risk of credit portfolio: the structural models (Moody's KMV model, and Credit- Metrics model), the intensity models (the actuarial models) and the econometric models (the Macro-factors model). The development of these three types of models is based...

The concept of advanced sustainable inventory management, where demand pattern stock level and advertising dependent under trade-credit policy is taking account in this present study. Optimal credit period cycle time are the main objective system. A developed solution methodology derived to show existence global optimality optimum time. concern system maximize annual total profit retailer with ...

This paper considers a two stages pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) consisting of a pharmaceutical manufacturer (pharma-manufacturer) that supplies one type of pharmaceutical product to a pharma-retailer. The customer demand rate for the pharmaceutical product is dependent on the pharma-retailer’s current-inventory level. The pharma-retailer determines the order quantity ( ) value as decision v...

the credit portfolio management and the optimal credit portfolio selection are identified as one of the most effective factors in banks’ credit risk. two main strategies in this regard include diversification versus concentration. in this study, at first, the status of diversification of iran’s banking sector is analyzed, then the relationship between diversification of the credit portfolio and...