The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive of exclusive retailers and assigning it … to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is … because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise when retailers have to allocate inventory across sales periods, and …

dealing with product inventory planning are seeking proper management strategies not only to increase profits but also to … selling price and storage time. Moreover, to make the present inventory planning more realistic, the unit holding cost … function is adopted as a power function of the inventory unit's storage period. The goal of this study is to provide the best …