In today's competitive markets, most firms in United Kingdom and United States offer their products on trade credit to stimulate sales and reduce inventory. Trade credit is calculated based on time value of money on the purchase cost (i.e., discounted cash flow analysis). Recently, many...

In practice, vendors (or sellers) often offer their buyers a fixed credit period to settle the account. The benefits of trade credit are not only to attract new buyers but also to avoid lasting price competition. On the other hand, the policy of granting a permissible delay adds not only an...

Trade credit financing is increasingly recognized as an important strategy to increase profitability in Inventory Management. We revisit an economic order quantity model under conditionally permissible delay in payments, in which the supplier offers the retailer a fully permissible delay of M...

In a recent paper, Soni and Shah (2008) presented an inventory model with a stock-dependent demand under progressive payment scheme, assuming zero ending-inventory and adopting a cost-minimization objective. However, with a stock-dependent demand a non-zero ending stock may increase profits...

Soni 2013. Int. J. Prod. Econ., 146 (1), 259–268 proposed optimal replenishment policies for non-instantaneous deteriorating items (i.e., the product starts deteriorating after a period of no-deterioration) with price and stock sensitive demand. With a stock-dependent demand, it is desirable...