Trade credit plays an important role in financing for many businesses and industries. For the buyers, purchased inventory can be considered to be financed in whole or in part with permissible delay in payments during the purchasing process. On the other hand, both the vendor and buyer take part...

Wee and Chung [Wee, H.M., Chung, C.T., 2007. A note on the economic lot size of the integrated vendor-buyer inventory system derived without derivatives. European Journal of Operational Research 177, 1289-1293] use the complete squares method to locate the optimal solution of the integrated...

Goyal et al. [Goyal, S.K., Teng, J.T., Chang, C.T., 2007. Optimal ordering policies when the supplier provides a progressive interest scheme. European Journal of Operational Research 179, 404-413] explore optimal ordering policies when the supplier provides a progressive interest scheme. The...

Chung and Wee [Chung, C.J., Wee, H.M., 2007. Optimizing the economic lot size of a three-stage supply chain with backordering derived without derivatives. European Journal of Operational Research 183, 933-943] investigate the economic lot size of a three-stage supply chain with backordering...

This paper discusses the optimum order quantity of the EOQ model that is not only dependent on the inventory policy but also on firm' credit policy. Here, the conditions of using a discounted cash-flows (DCF) approach and trade credit depending on the quantity ordered are discussed. We consider...