Inventory management research for growing items with carbon-constrained

Growing items need to be fed among the process from purchase to sale, in which the weight of inventory changes over time, as well as the inventory behavior. Nowadays, since the consumers prefer to low carbon goods and the government require low carbon operation, so the retailers have to make efforts to reduce the carbon emissions in operation, which also may affect the inventory behavior. This paper discusses the inventory management problems of growing items under carbon-constrained, proposes a new inventory model, and discusses the influence of the carbon-constrained on the total cost, carbon emissions, optimal order quantity and the optimal slaughter time. The results suggest that the retailer usually reduce the emissions by changing the order quantity rather than feeding time, the optimal feeding time decreases with the increasing of initial order weight, and the carbon emissions reductions offset the associated increase in total cost caused by adjusting the order quantity. Meanwhile, a modest punishment can induce retailers to reduce its carbon emissions, but it may add the total cost.