The present article investigates the issue of channel coordination of a manufacturer and a retailer facing stochastic demand that is sensitive to promotional effort. In newsvendor setting, the return policy, sharing contract on promotional effort, and discount on whole sales price provided by...

The authors study the well-known order quantity model in a three-player context, using a framework of newsboy problem. An expected average cost function of the chain by trading off inventory cost and shortage costs is formulated which is minimized to obtain optimal order sizes of the supplier,...

The paper deals with a production inventory model for various types of items where multiple suppliers, a manufacturer and the multiple non-competing retailers are the members of the supply chain. In this model, each supplier supplies only one type of raw material to the manufacturer. The...

In this paper, the authors study a multi-item deterministic EOQ (economic order quantity) model for a vendor when the demand rate of the essential commodities decreases quadratically with increasing sales price and increase exponentially with increasing level of price breaks. A price discount is...

The present article investigates an economic order quantity/ economic production quantity model in three-layer (manufacturer, vendor and retailer) supply chain management. In each stage, the products may undergo non-conforming quality items which have less value in the market. This model...

The objective of this paper is to develop a multi-echelon supply chain model for multiple-markets with different selling seasons. Here, two suppliers are involved to supply the raw materials to the manufacturer where the main supplier may face supply disruption after a random time and the...

The paper deals with a joint project of fishery and poultry while growth rates of both the species depend on the available nutrients and environmental carrying capacities of biomasses. The demand rates of both the species in the market vary with the selling prices and on-hand stock of the...

The article deals with a backorder EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model with promotional index for fuzzy decision variables. Here, a profit function is developed where the function itself is the function of m-th power of promotional index (PI) and the order quantity, shortage quantity and the PI...

The present article deals with an optimal production control policy for stock and sales team's initiatives sensitive demand. The capacity of the production quantity and stock of produced items are state variable and the effort of sales-team/agent is a control variable in this model. Finally, a...