THE OPTIMAL CYCLE TIME FOR DETERIORATING ITEMS WITH LIMITED STORAGE CAPACITY UNDER PERMISSIBLE DELAY IN PAYMENTS

Inventory models with deteriorating items have received considerable attention in recent years. In considering the deteriorating inventory with permissible delay in payments, most researchers pay attention to a single warehouse. Under conditions of permissible delay in payments, this paper develops a model to determine the optimal cycle time for a single deteriorating item that is stored in two different warehouses. A rented warehouse (RW) is used to store the excess units over the fixed capacity W of the owned warehouse (OW). The rented warehouse is assumed to charge higher unit holding cost than the OW. In this paper, we propose a two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items under permissible delay in payments. It is assumed that the deterioration rate in RW is the same as in OW, and the holding cost in RW is greater than that in OW. The stocks of RW are transported to OW in continuous release pattern and the transportation cost is ignored. Three theorems are developed to determine the optimal cycle time and numerical examples are given to illustrate these theorems.Cost–benefit analysis, EOQ, inventory, deteriorating items, permissible delay in payments

Supply chain finance for ameliorating and deteriorating products: a systematic literature review

Ameliorating and deteriorating products, or, more generally, items that change value over time, present a high sensitiveness to the surrounding environment (e.g., temperature, humidity, and light intensity). For this reason, they should be properly stored along the supply chain to guarantee the desired quality to the consumers. Specifically, ameliorating items face an increase in value if there are stored for longer periods, which can lead to higher selling price. At the same time, the costumers’ demand is sensitive to the price (i.e., the higher the selling price the lower the final demand), sensitiveness that is related to the quality of the products (i.e., lower sensitiveness for high-quality products). On the contrary, deteriorating items lose quality and value over time which result in revenue losses due to lost sales or reduced selling price. Since these products need to be properly stored (i.e., usually in temperature- and humidity-controlled warehouses) the holding costs, which comprise also the energy costs, may be particularly relevant impacting on the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the supply chain. Furthermore, due to the recent economic crisis, companies (especially, small and medium enterprises) face payment difficulties of customers and high volatility of resources prices. This increases the risk of insolvency and on the other hand the financing needs. In this context, supply chain finance emerged as a mean for efficiency by coordinating the financial flow and providing a set of financial schemes aiming at optimizing accounts payable and receivable along the supply chain. The aim of the present study is thus to investigate through a systematic literature review the two main themes presented (i.e., inventory management models for products that change value over time, and financial techniques and strategies to support companies in inventory management) to understand if any financial technique has been studied for supporting the management of this class of products and to verify the existing literature gap