Optimization and Inventory Management

Nita N. Shah is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. Her primary research interest is in operations research, in particular modelling real-life problems. She has 12 books and more than 475 articles in respected international journals to her credit. In addition, she is currently serving on the editorial boards of the journals Revista Investigacion Operacional (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba), Journal of Social Science and Management, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Computations, and Mathematics Today. Mandeep Mittal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India. After completing his Master’s in Applied Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral research at Hanyang University, South Korea. He has one book and more than 50 papers in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He received the Best Faculty Award from Amity School of Engineering and Technology, New Delhi, for the year 2016–2017. In addition, he is currently serving on the editorial boards of the journals Revista Investigacion Operacional, Journal of Control and Systems Engineering, and Journal of Advances in Management Sciences and Information Systems.

• Section 1: Inventory models with trade credit financing for imperfect quality items.- Chapter 1. An economic production quantity (EPQ) inventory model for deteriorating item under two-level trade credit policy with allowable shortages.- Chapter 2. Deteriorating imperfect produce inventory for time dependent demand under Radio frequency Identification adoption with preservation and trade credit.- Chapter 3. EOQ Model Under Discounted Partial Advance - Partial Trade Credit Policy with Price Dependent Demand.- Chapter 4. Stock Dependent Inventory Model for Imperfect Items under Permissible Delay in Payments.- Chapter 5. A Discrete-in-Time inventory model under Stockout based Substitution.- Chapter 6. An economic order quantity inventory model with shortage considering wastage uncertainty for Fish/pig/poultry farmers.- Chapter 7. Retailer's replenishment policies under two level trade credit policy with defective items in a supply chain model when demand depends on both selling price and credit period.- Chapter 8. Effects of pre and post deterioration price discounts on selling price in formulation of an ordering policy for an inventory system: A study.- Chapter 9. An Inventory Control Policy for Time Dependent Perishable Item with Variable Demand under Two Levels Order Linked Trade Credit.- Chapter 10. Inventory policies for fixed life products having time and price sensitive demand under promotion efforts with advance payments option.- Chapter 11. An inventory model of deteriorating items for stock dependent demand with time varying holding cost and random decay start time.- Section 2: Environmental impact on the ordering policies.- Chapter 12. Inventory Models with Environmental Consideration for Imperfect Quality Items.- Chapter 13. Effect of carbon footprints during transportation in a supply chain model under inflation.- Chapter 14. Emission Effect on Supply Chain for Imperfect Quality Items under Trade Credit Policy.- Section 3: Impact of learning on the supply chain models.- Chapter 15. Efficient supplier’s selection: one way to inventory control.- Chapter 16. An Application of Genetic Algorithm for Order Allocation amongst Suppliers.- Chapter 17. Effect of Manufacturer’s Innovation and Retailer’s Promotion under Centralized and Decentralized Options.- Chapter 18. Optimal ordering policy of substitutable products for supermarket under joint replenishment Inventory control.- Chapter 19. An efficient – hybrid optimization approach for Closed – loop supply chain under randomness.- Section 4: EOQ models considering warehousing.- Chapter 20. Asymmetric supply chain model with imperfect items and variable demand: A Control Theoretic Approach.- Chapter 21. Effect of learning on optimal policies of supply chain partners for imperfect quality items: Game theoretic approach.- Chapter 22. A Production Reliable Model for Imperfect Items with Random Machine Breakdown under Learning and Forgetting.- Section 4: EOQ models considering warehousing.- Chapter 23. A marketing decision oriented two warehouses inventory system under displayed stock level dependent consumption rate.- Chapter 24. Credit Financing in Two Warehouse Environment For Defective Items with Allowable Shortages.- Chapter 25. Two-warehouse inventory model with quantity discount policy.- Section 5: Optimal Ordering policies with datamining and PSO techniques.- Chapter 26. Decision Making with Temporal Association Rule Mining and Clustering in Supply Chains.- Chapter 27. A Nature Inspired Computational Method to Optimise Solutions to a Problem by Refining Candidate Solutions using Particle Swarm Optimisation.- Section 6: Supply chain models in fuzzy environment.- Chapter 28. A Fuzzy Two-Echelon Supply Chain model for deteriorating items with time varying holding cost involving lead time as a decision variable.- Chapter 29. A Soft-Computing Approach on inventory model for deteriorating items with Genetic algorithm in Fuzzy Environment.- Section 7: Optimal production models for multi-items and multi-retailer.- Chapter 30. Optimal production-inventory policies for processed fruit juices manufacturer and multi-retailers with trended demand and quality degradation.- Chapter 31. Multi-Product Optimization of Supply Chain using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm.- Section 8: Marketing model to understand buying behaviour.- Chapter 32. Interpretive Structural Modelling to understand factors influencing buying behaviour of Air-Freshener.