Title
Dynamic ordering and pricing for a perishable goods supply chain
Abstract
The paper studies the combined problem of pricing and ordering for a perishable product supply chain with one supplier and one retailer in a finite horizon. The lifetime of the product is two periods and demand in each period is random and price-sensitive. In each period, the supplier determines first a wholesale price and then the retailer decides an order quantity and retail prices. We show that the optimal pricing strategy for the non-fresh product depends only on its inventory, and the optimal pricing strategy and the optimal order quantity for the fresh product depend only on the wholesale price and they have a constant relation. Moreover, the game between the retailer and the supplier for finite horizon is equivalent to a one period game with only one order. Thus, the optimal policies are identical at each period. For the additive and multiplicative demands, we further obtain equations to compute the optimal strategies. All of above results are extended into the infinite horizon case and longer lifetime products. Finally, a numerical analysis is given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.cie.2010.11.013
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
supply chain
Journal
60
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
Computers & Industrial Engineering
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.79
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junxiu Jia1121.80
Qi-ying Hu2386.56