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Inventory management of perishable products in a retail business: a comparison with and without in-store replenishment policies under different purchasing batch sizes

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  • Navee Chiadamrong
  • Rigzin Lhamo

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Perishable products are products in daily life that expire or decrease in quality or value over time. As their freshness level decreases with time and inventory is lost by deterioration with time, traditional methods for managing inventory are not suitable for perishable products. Additional mechanisms are then required to manage the inventory of such products. In the study, taking into consideration the age of perishable inventories, these mechanisms are investigated in different scenarios, and with different cost combinations to study the effect on the inventory management of perishable products. The outcomes of the replenishment policies under different purchasing batch sizes with and without a backroom are also compared to find out how and in what situations the policy with backroom storage outperforms the others and can lead to cost reduction and higher profit as compared to the case without backroom storage. These findings help firms decide the best policy for managing perishable products in a certain business environment.

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  • Navee Chiadamrong & Rigzin Lhamo, 2017. "Inventory management of perishable products in a retail business: a comparison with and without in-store replenishment policies under different purchasing batch sizes," International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 26(2), pages 224-252.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijlsma:v:26:y:2017:i:2:p:224-252
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    1. Mahmood Vahdani & Zeinab Sazvar & Kannan Govindan, 2022. "An integrated economic disposal and lot-sizing problem for perishable inventories with batch production and corrupt stock-dependent holding cost," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 315(2), pages 2135-2167, August.

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