...Satya Prakash; Indrajit Mukherjee Purpose This study primarily aims to develop and solve an enhanced optimisation model for an assembly product multi-period inbound inventory routing problem (IRP). The many-to-one (inbound) model considers the bill of materials (BOM), supply failure risks (SFR...

... the perishability of product in modeling makes the problem more practically significant as these days there are many supply chains handling dairy and other fresh products. Originality/value Considering uncertainty, production, transshipment and perishable product in the inventory-routing problem makes a new...