Dead-beat sliding mode control of perishable inventories with transportation losses and multiple suppliers

In this paper a new dead-beat sliding mode warehouse management strategy is proposed. The strategy ensures full customers' demand satisfaction and prevents from exceeding the warehouse capacity. Furthermore, it ensures that the ordered quantities of goods are always non-negative and upper bounded. The proposed strategy not only explicitly takes into account decay of goods stored in the warehouse (perishing inventories) but it also accounts for transportation losses which take place on the way from suppliers to the warehouse.