A comprehensive note on: An inventory model under two levels of trade credit and limited storage space derived without derivatives

In 2006, Huang proposed an inventory model with two warehouses when the supplier offers the retailer a permissible delay of M periods, and the retailer also provides its customers a permissible delay of N periods. He then solved it without derivatives. In this note, we extend his model to complement the shortcomings of his model. In contrast to the complicated and tedious quadratic–algebraic method suggested by Huang, we propose a simple arithmetic–geometric method to solve the inventory problem. Finally, we run computer programs for several numerical examples to illustrate the proposed model and obtain some managerial implications.