The study proposes a purchasing model, which considers a case of time-varying deterioration, partial back-ordering that depends on the waiting time for backlogging, and time value of money over a finite horizon. The model integrates all possible real-world situations that may happen in dealing with an order quantity. We derive the lower bound of the replenishment for a specific planning horizon and propose a procedure to solve the problem.
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