Paper Info
Title
Online retailers' promotional pricing, free-shipping threshold, and inventory decisions: A simulation-based analysis.
Abstract
•Online retailer’s optimal profit margin, free-shipping threshold and inventory decisions are analyzed.•Publicly-available statistics are used to perform the analysis.•We use Arena to simulate the online retailing system and OptQuest to optimize the decisions.•We perform sensitivity analysis to draw managerial insights.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.006
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Profit margin,Contingent free-shipping,Inventory,Simulation with Arena,Optimization with OptQuest,Sensitivity analysis
Decision problem,Profit margin,Standard deviation,Visitor pattern,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
230
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.66
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Becerril-Arreola1241.97
Mingming Leng216513.26
Mahmut Parlar328133.65