Research Article

Optimal Pricing and Ordering Policy for Deteriorating Items with Stock-and-Price Dependent Demand and Presale Rebate

Table 1

Our paper versus literatures for key assumptions of inventory models with deteriorating items.

Author/authors Demand rate Deterioration rate Shortage or not Shortage cost Decision

Skouri et al. [8] Time-dependent Weibull distributionYes Constant,  
Sicilia et al. [9] Time-dependent ConstantYes Constant,  
Cheng et al. [10]Time-dependentConstantYesConstant
Zhao [11, 12]Time-dependentWeibull distributionYesConstant
Begum et al. [13] Price-dependentWeibull distributionNoNo,  
Dye [14]Price-dependent Time-dependentYesConstant, , and  
Yang et al. [15]Price-dependentNoYesConstant,  
B. Sarkar and S. Sarkar [16]Stock-dependentTime-dependentYesConstant,  
Padmanabhan and Vrat [17]Stock-dependentConstantYesConstant,  
Avinadav et al. [18]Price-and-timeConstantNoNo,  , and  
Maihami and Nakhai Kamalabadi [19]Price-and-time NoninstantaneousYes Constant,  
Hou and Lin [1]Price-and-stockConstantYesConstant,  
Giri and Bardhan [5]Price-and-stockNoNoNo,  

This paperPrice-and-stockConstantPresaleTime-dependent,  , and  

= selling price,   = replenishment/out of stock time,   = order quantity,   = inventory cycle, and   = the number of replenishment.