Nowadays, supply chain management (SCM) is a popular practice in manufacturing systems. The concept of SCM has forced members to find ways to cut costs and bring performance benefits to the firms. In the creation of long-term partnerships in the supply chain, the collaboration between supply...

This study addresses a single-vendor multi-buyer integrated system with a common replenishment cycle and a mixed batch shipment policy. The objective is to determine the common replenishment cycle, number of shipments and the structure of the mixed batch shipment which minimises the integrated...