Deteriorating Inventory Model for Chilled Food

Table 2

Overview of perishable goods works.

Authors	Claims
Bogataj et al. [37]	Appropriate control over the transportation time and storage temperature can keep the product on the required level of quality and quantity at the final delivery.
Osvald & Stirn [38]	They developed a vehicle routing algorithm for distributing perishable goods; to obtain minimum distribution cost, their algorithm planned a schedule to reduce distribution time.
Chen et al. [39]	They established a nonlinear mathematical model to consider production scheduling and vehicle routing for perishable goods; their model could determine the time to start producing and vehicle routes simultaneously.
Nakhai and Jafari [23]	Perishable goods were quite sensitive in time and temperature.
Xu & Wang [40]	Suitable facility and precise temperature controlling are two major factors to keep perishable goods.
Aiello et al. [41]	They implied that supply chain organization and operative characteristics have a significant influence on perishable goods, ensuring that the suitable temperature conditions in warehouse were important.
^*Our work	We should focus on time and temperature if we consider perishable goods in our works. We therefore built an inventory model quantifying chilled food quality and remaining value.