Purpose: This paper investigates the inter-relationships among supply integration, demand integration and internal integration in the context of food banking. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilizes survey data from managers at 71 different food banks in the US combined with secondary...

We consider a variation of the economic order quantity (EOQ) model where cumulative holding cost is a nonlinear function of time. This problem has been studied by Weiss (1982), and we here show how it is an approximation of the optimal order quantity for perishable goods, such as milk, and...