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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2026, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (11): 313-325.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2024.1786

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Multi-item Joint Replenishment Model Considering Financial Repayment Portfolio

Ligang Cui1,4, Haili Ren1,2, Jie Deng3(), Yingcong Chen1,4   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
    2.Nanchong Vocational College of Culture and Tourism,Nanchong 637400,China
    3.Intellectual Property Institution of Chongqing,Chongqing University of Technology,Chongqing 400054,China
    4.Chongqing Intelligent Supply Chain Engineering & Technology Research Center,Chongqing 400074,China
  • Received:2024-10-03 Revised:2025-03-15 Online:2026-11-25 Published:2026-11-10
  • Contact: Jie Deng E-mail:mabelduo@hotmail.com

Abstract:

With the fast development of inclusive finance in supporting the supply chain operations, most financial service agencies are building platforms by developing a variety of flexible short-term supply chain financing strategy packages or products, such as early payment discounts, deferred payments, and reverse factoring, to serve the supply chain wholesalers and retailers, which enrich the payment means for smoothing the supply chain operations, thereby optimizing the operational cost of retailers under uncertain demand and unstable supply environments. For multi-item management, retailer needs to make a comprehensive decision on the order quantity and frequency regarding factors such as the holding level of capital, the replenishment price, and the timing of repayment. A variety of payment modes with different payment schedules to enhance the flexibility and support capabilities of financial services. However, it is a challenge for small and medium retailers to comprehensively analyze the returns and risks of different short-term financial products under various payment timelines.Under such background, a stochastic joint replenishment model (SJRP) is established considering three repayment modes, i.e., early payment, delayed payment, and reverse factoring to minimize the total system cost by deciding the best replenishment cycle time, frequencies, safety inventory levels as well as the timing for repayment. By sharing the experience of Cuckoo Search in mimicking the brood parasitism behavior of cuckoos and the Lévy flight search characteristics, a hybrid Cuckoo Search-Adaptive Differential Evolution (CSADE) algorithm is developed to solve the proposed SJRP.Numerical experiments have been designed to confirm the effectiveness of CSADE for solving the SJRP model compared with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Cuckoo Search (CS), and Adaptive Differential Evolution (ADE). Furthermore, the numerical sensitivity analyses supplemented to reveal the in-depth management insights. Through numerical experiments, several key insights have been reported: First, price discounts and the timing adjustments of reverse factoring significantly influence retailers’ repayment decisions. Second, joint replenishment and inventory management offer substantial financial returns, but these returns tend to be unstable. Lastly, retailers may achieve additional capital gains through reverse factoring, provided that their credit risk remains low.

Key words: joint replenishment, early payment, delayed payment, reverse factoring, intelligent algorithm

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