Scientia Iranica

Scientia Iranica

Two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items with imperfect quality under the conditions of permissible delay in payments

Authors
1 Department of Operational Research, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, New Academic Block University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
2 School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, E. Garza Sada 2501 Sur, C.P. 64849, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Abstract
Regularly, manufacturing systems produce perfect and imperfect quality items. The perfect items start deteriorating as soon as these enter to the inventory. On the other hand, the suppliers provide a delay in payment in order to motivate their buyers to purchase more products. This paper develops a two-warehouse inventory model that considers jointly the imperfect quality items, deterioration and one level of trade credit. The proposed inventory model optimizes the order quantity to maximize the total profit per unit time. Finally, the proposed inventory model and its solution procedure are validated with numerical examples and a sensitivity analysis is done to show how inventory model reacts to changes in parameters.
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Volume 24, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
February 2017
Pages 390-412

  • Receive Date 15 December 2015
  • Accept Date 27 July 2017