We consider a supply chain in which a producer supplies a fresh product, through a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, to a distant market where a distributor purchases and sells it to end customers. The product is perishable, both the quantity and quality of which may deteriorate during the...

In this paper, we determine the order quantity and the prices for a perishable product with a multiple period lifetime. Demands for products of different ages are dependent on the prices of mutually “substitutable” products. The problem for a product with lifetime of two periods is first...