A Review of Neutrosophic Sustainable Inventory Models
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https://doi.org/10.22105/kmisj.v2i3.107Keywords:
Neutrosophy, Inventory models, SustainabilityAbstract
Sustainable Inventory Management (SIM) is imperative to set a balance between economic and environmental constraints. Sustainable centric inventory model development under uncertainty fail to capture intricate demand patterns and fluctuating cost parameters. This has grounded the origin of Neutrosophic integrated inventory models based on three valued logic of truth, indeterminacy and falsity membership functions. This study reviews the state of art of Neutrosophic integrated sustainable inventory models. The existing literature is explored in the three dimensions of inventory models handling defective and imperfect items; green models with carbon emissions and sustainable costs and different modelling approaches. The advantages of blending Neutrosophic representations with sustainable inventory models are substantiated. The future directions of Neutrosophic based models are also discussed in this study.
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