Neutrosophic Cost Pattern of Inventory System with Novel Demand Incorporating Deterioration and Discount on Defective Items Using Particle Swarm Algorithm

Abstract

The potential to obtain defective or damaged items with non-defective commodities is common to experience at the production unit or when shipping products from one layer to another. This research focuses on the faulty things that retailers receive from suppliers. The retailer has set a restriction on the percentage of defective things, and the retailer receives a discount on the cost of purchasing defective items. The proposed inventory system handles the uncertainty in inventory costs and also considers the demand and deterioration of items with prioritized maximum product life. This work minimizes total inventory cost when demand rate as a function of reliability and power pattern of time under a crisp and triangular neutrosophic environment. The inventory system for degrading items considers the predictability and power pattern of time with a reasonable payment delay. The interest charges are applied only after a specific permissible time limit in the proposed inventory system. The neutrosophic number that defines three different kinds of membership functions representing the truth, hesitation, and falseness is applied in the inventory model in handling the uncertainty of the cost pattern. The proposed inventory model is investigated using a particle swarm optimization algorithm, and the results are validated using a numerical example and a sensitivity analysis for various parameters.