Integrated Supply Chain Model with Price-dependent Demand and Product Recovery.

This article is concerned with the problem of single-vendor single-buyer integrated supply chain inventory with price-dependent demand and product recovery. In our model, we assume that the vendor inspects each lot product in one production run in advance before delivering to the buyer, in which if defective items are unrecoverable, then he/she disposes of them; otherwise, which are immediately recovered for reuse. In addition, we consider that the demand rate is a function of unit price charged by the vendor to the buyer to widen applications to the model. The objective of this article is to minimize the joint total cost per unit time by simultaneously optimizing the buyer's order quantity, the size of each shipment of the vendor, and the number of shipments from the vendor to the buyer in one production run. Furthermore, an algorithmic procedure of finding the optimal solution is developed, and finally, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]