Replenishment and pricing policy for deteriorating items taking into account the time-value of money

A deteriorating inventory model taking into account the time-value of money is developed for a deterministic inventory system with price-dependent demand. This study applies the discounted cash flows (DCF) approach for problem analysis. A heuristic approach is presented to derive the near optimal replenishment and pricing policy that tries to maximize the total net present-value profit. A numerical example is implemented to illustrate the theory.