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Inventory management of perishable products : a case of melon in Tunisia

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  • Rahal, Imen
  • Elloumi, Abdelkarim

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Inventory management is the branch of business management that covers inventory planning and control. For this reason, we are considering the use of performance indicators in continuous control models specifically for inventory management of perishable products. Indeed, the high rate of deterioration of food products under ambient storage conditions calls for specific storage conditions in the store or at the consumer's premises to slow the rate of deterioration. This article presents a multi�level inventory management model for melons. The melon chain comprises a non-linear programming model, formulated and evaluated in CPLEX, which minimizes the total cost of inventory in the chain formed by a wholesaler, hypermarket, retailer and resellers in order to calculate the optimal order quantity and total cost of melon for each actor.

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  • Rahal, Imen & Elloumi, Abdelkarim, 2021. "Inventory management of perishable products : a case of melon in Tunisia," MPRA Paper 118028, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. RAHAL, Imene & KHALIFA, zayed, 2025. "The Blue Economy in the Digital Age: How Information Technologies Are Transforming the Blue Economy," MPRA Paper 127349, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 16 Nov 2025.
    2. RAHAL, Imen, 2024. "The Supply Chain Management for Perishables Products : A Literature Review," MPRA Paper 119193, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Rahal, Imen, 2023. "Analyse de la gestion des stocks de produits périssables en utilisant le modèle EOQ en Tunisie [Analysis of stock management for perishable products using EOQ model in Tunisia]," MPRA Paper 118592, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. RAHAL, Imen & Khalifa, Zayed, 2025. "Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions," MPRA Paper 127061, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 12 Nov 2025.
    5. Rahal, Imene & Khalifa, zayed, 2025. "AI-EcoSCM: A Lean and Agile Framework for Economic Excellence," MPRA Paper 126740, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 15 Oct 2025.

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