Key research themes
1. How can Economic Order Quantity models incorporate deterioration, imperfect quality, and environmental emission considerations to optimize sustainable inventory decisions?
This research theme explores extensions of the classical EOQ model to accommodate real-world complexities such as item deterioration, imperfect quality, and environmental impact through emission costs. These factors are crucial for industries managing perishable goods or facing sustainability pressures, aiming to balance cost, quality, and ecological concerns in inventory management.
2. How do inventory demand dependencies, such as stock-level, price, temporal factors, and item interrelationships, affect optimal EOQ policies for perishable and growing items?
This theme centers on how EOQ models are extended to account for demand that depends dynamically on inventory levels, selling prices, time, and relationships between products like complements and substitutes. Perishable and growing items are especially sensitive to these factors, requiring models that can capture complex demand dependencies to derive ordering and pricing policies that optimize profitability and operational efficiency.
3. What advanced decision-making and optimization methods can improve EOQ modeling under uncertainty, fuzzy environments, and supply disruptions?
This theme focuses on methodological advances and their application to EOQ models addressing uncertainty in parameters through fuzzy reasoning, handling supply chain disruptions such as spare parts shortages, and incorporating financial complexities like compound interest. These approaches seek to deliver more robust, realistic inventory policies accommodating uncertain or complex real-world conditions.