In this study, the coordinated inventory models with allowable trade credit are developed. The demand is considered to be price-sensitive and decreasing function of time. The models consider the two-level trade credit policy, i.e., vendor offers some credit period to buyer and buyer in turn...

An attempt is made to formulate optimal ordering policies for the retailer when the supplier offers progressive credit periods to settle the account. We define progressive credit periods as follows: If the retailer settles the outstanding amount by M, the supplier does not charge any interest....

Deterioration is defined as decay, damage, spoilage, evaporation, obsolescence, pilferage, and loss of utility or loss of marginal value of a commodity that reduces usefulness from original ones. Blood, fish, fruits and vegetables, alcohol, gasoline, radioactive chemicals, medicines, etc., lose...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study integrated inventory system and pricing and ordering strategy for vendor‐buyer supply chain system. Here, the vendor offers a trade credit to the buyer when the buyer's order quantity exceeds a given pre‐specified quantity. Therefore, to...

Given the increasing saliency of special offers as a sales promotion tool, this paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the two most common payment reduction schemes, namely a decrease in the purchase price and a delay in the payment of the merchandise. Following some of the latest...

In this paper, an attempt is made to derive the retailer's inventory policy for deteriorating items under two levels of trade credit in declining market in supply chain environment. It is assumed that the retailer is a powerful decision maker. Supplier offers credit period to the retailer which...

In this paper, we present an inventory model with stock-dependent demand and deteriorating inventory. It is assumed that the deterioration rate follows a three-parameter Weibull distribution. The strategy of offering discounts in the selling price to boost demand is studied. The optimal discount...