Title
Pricing and slot allocation for long-term customers of shipping transportation services
Abstract
For a shipping company, it is important to price and allocate slots for long-term customers as they account for a large percentage of its transportation business. In this paper, a segmented pricing and slot allocation strategy is proposed. First, the long-term customers and their cargos are segmented due to their historical transportation business records and their properties. Then based on the segmentation, definitions of standard service and optional service are proposed and models relative to these two conceptions are built, respectively. Sequently, different pricing and slot allocation strategies are presented by simulating uncertain aspects. At last guidelines for shipping companies to make proper decisions are given by analyzing the experiment results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/SOLI.2010.5551551
Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
long-term customers,slot allocation strategy,historical transportation business records,transportation,pricing strategy,customer services,standard service concept,optional service concept,transportation business,shipping transportation services,pricing,sensitivity
Conference
null
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
null
null
978-1-4244-7118-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Li1214.47
Tie Liu200.34
Rongzeng Cao35510.61
Jun Xu400.34