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Coordinated pricing and inventory decisions for perishable products

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We investigate the problem of jointly determining the optimal pricing and inventory replenishment strategy for a deterministic perishable inventory system in which demand is time and price dependent. The inventory is also assumed to decay at a certain rate. The seller has the opportunity to adjust prices for a discrete number of times at a certain cost during the sales season to influence demand and to improve revenues. We develop a mathematical model to find the optimal times to change the prices, the optimal prices and the optimal order quantity. We present analytical results to find the optimal prices when the times of price changes are given and design heuristic algorithms to determine the optimal times to change the prices. We analyze the efficiency of multiple pricing strategy by comparing the profits obtained by single pricing case and also analyze the effect of different parameters on the optimal solution through numerical experiments.

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Correspondence to Onur Kaya.

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We thank the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for partially supporting this work through the Grant Number 111M533.

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Kaya, O., Polat, A.L. Coordinated pricing and inventory decisions for perishable products. OR Spectrum 39, 589–606 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-016-0467-6

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