AccScience Publishing / IJOCTA / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.11121/ijocta.2022.1025
RESEARCH ARTICLE

An EOQ model for deteriorating items analyzing retailer’s optimal strategy  under trade credit and return policy with nonlinear demand and resalable  returns

Mamta Kumari1* Pijus Kanti De1*
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1 Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar -788010, India
IJOCTA 2022, 12(1), 47–55; https://doi.org/10.11121/ijocta.2022.1025
Submitted: 30 September 2020 | Accepted: 1 December 2021 | Published: 2 January 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Keywords
Inventory
Trade credit policy
Resalable returns
Deteriorating item
Refund
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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