The EOQ Model for Deteriorating Items with a Conditional Trade Credit Linked to Order Quantity in a Supply Chain System

Abstract

For generality, we observed that some of the optimization methods lack the mathematical rigor and some of them are based on intuitive arguments which result in the solution procedures being questionable from logical viewpoints of a mathematical analysis such as those in the work by Ouyang et al. (2009). They consider an economic order quantity model for deteriorating items with partially permissible delays in payments linked to order quantity. Basically, their inventory models are interesting, however, they ignore explorations of interrelations of functional behaviors (continuity, monotonicity properties, differentiability, et cetera) of the total cost function to locate the optimal solution, so those shortcomings will naturally influence the implementation of their considered inventory model. Consequently, the main purpose of this paper is to provide accurate and reliable mathematical analytic solution procedures for different scenarios that overcome the shortcomings of Ouyang et al.