Joint Pricing and Inventory Control under Reference Price Effects
Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: Nov 06, 2009
Place of publication: Bern
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9783631589137
Subjects: Purchasing & supply management; Production & quality control management
Description: In this work, we address the problem of simultaneously determining a pricing and inventory replenishment strategy under reference price effects. This reference price effect models the fact that consumers not only react sensitively to the current price, but also to deviations from a reference price formed on the basis of past purchases. Immediate effects of price reductions on profits have to be weighted against the resulting losses in future periods. By providing an analytical analysis and numerical simulations we study how the additional dynamics of the consumers? willingness to pay affect an optimal pricing and inventory control model and whether a simple policy such as a base-stock-list-price policy holds in such a setting.
Notes: English.