Article ID: | iaor2012567 |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 141 |
End Page Number: | 160 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | Central European Journal of Operations Research |
Authors: | Ouyang Liang-Yuh, Chang Chun-Tao, Shum Philip |
Keywords: | combinatorial optimization, inventory, economics, simulation: applications |
Most researchers established their inventory lot‐size models under trade credit financing by assuming that the supplier offers the retailer fully permissible delay in payments and the products received are all non‐defective. However, in the real business environment, it often can be observed that the supplier offers the retailer a fully permissible delay in payments only when the order quantity is greater than or equal to the predetermined quantity