Managers always want to decrease the cost of the inventory system and increase the customers’ satisfaction. To access to the mentioned aim they should notice the different aspects of their inventory system to become successful in today competitive global marketing. In this research we model...

In many transactions concerning selling and buying, a specified delay of payment is offered or accepted by the seller. This can be regarded as a kind of discount and has potential consequences for the order size. These kinds of effects are not explicitly incorporated in the classical formulas...

In this paper, an economic production quantity (EPQ) inventory model with interruption in process, scrap and rework is developed and analyzed. The inventory model is for multiple products and all products are manufactured in a unique machine. Obviously, the existence of only one machine results...

In this paper, for the first time, an inventory control model to determine the optimal order and shortage quantities of a perishable item when the supplier offers a special sale is developed. Four possible cases based on decision that the purchaser might make about the first replenishment policy...