Approximately 89 million of tonnes of food is wasted every year in the EU along the whole
food supply chain. The reasons for food waste by retailers include inappropriate quality …

This paper studies a joint pricing, replenishment and preservation technology investment
problem for non-instantaneous deteriorating items. Preservation technology affects both the …

A major part of retail industry deals with items whose freshness declines with time, resulting
in lower demand at the same price. The item may later begin to deteriorate, when it is …

When the freshness of the firm's food is not observable, consumers may experience
psychological feelings of elation or disappointment when the perceived actual freshness …

In fresh-product supply chain (FSC) management, reducing product waste throughout the
system is of high importance both from an economic and an environmental point of view. In …

Growth outlines the behavior of a class of inventories whose weight and size increase
during their storage. Fast-growing young animals such as broiler chickens, ducks, and …

The deterioration of perishable items results not only in direct quantitative losses, but also in
qualitative losses, which would reduce the customer acceptability. To maintain or improve …

As the retail industry is growing larger and more diversified, retailers' decisions about
product selection, shelf-space-allocation, and replenishment become more important and …

The joint pricing and inventory control is known as an efficient supply chain management
policy. It is even more prominent when retailers sell deteriorating products in a competitive …

With the intensification of time-based competition, the importance of reducing lead-time by
rapidly delivering multi-orders has been underscored in the process of replenishment …