This article reviews the literature on quantitatively oriented approaches for determining the
optimal lot-size when supplier offers credit period to the retailer to settle their account. An …

The payment mechanism plays an important role in coordinating a supply chain for better
financial performance through cash flow optimization, which is key for today's business …

Trade credit has many forms in today's business practice. The most common form of trade
credit policy that is used to encourage retailers to buy larger quantities is order-size …

In today's competitive market, in order to obtain a competition advantage, the supplier often
offers the purchaser a longer permissible delay in payments or a price discount if the order …

This paper considers an imperfect manufacturing system with credit policies in fuzzy random
environments. The supplier simultaneously offers the retailer either a permissible delay in …

Fuzzy and neutrosophic sets are two effective tools to deal with the ambiguities and
uncertainties present in real-world problems. To deal with the uncertainties of a real-world …

Suppliers often prefer to offer their retailers a delay period in payment to attract more sales
and promote revenue in a supply chain. The retailers usually ask their customers to pay a …

In the existing literatures about trade credit, there are two payment methods to be adopted,
one is the retailer pays off all units sold and keeps the profits for other uses and the other is …

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the retailer's optimal cycle time and optimal
payment time under the supplier's cash discount and trade credit policy within the economic …

The main purpose of this article is to investigate the optimal wholesaler's replenishment
decisions for deterioration items under two levels of the trade credit policy and two storage …