The present study, formulates a multi-echelon supply chain network with a single producer, multi-distributors and multi-retailers for a deteriorating inventory during a finite planning horizon. The inventory levels of the producer and the distributors are assumed to be decreasing by discrete...

This paper studies and analyzes an inventory model with the assumption that the lifetime of the commodity is random and follows a generalized Pareto distribution. It is also assumed that demand rate is of Trapezoidal type, i.e., the demand rate is a piecewise linear function and this demand rate...