Considering a periodic review system where the online seller allows the customers to pay when the products are delivered to them(referred as cash-on-delivery payment scheme in this paper),the authors investigate the s...Considering a periodic review system where the online seller allows the customers to pay when the products are delivered to them(referred as cash-on-delivery payment scheme in this paper),the authors investigate the seller's joint pricing and inventory control policy with a finite planning horizon.In particular,the authors incorporate the customers' possible order cancellation behavior with the cash-on-delivery scheme.It can be proven that the base-stock list price policy is optimal under mild conditions.The authors also analyze the impact of the customers' forward looking behavior on the optimal policy.展开更多
Along with the rapid development of economics and enhancement of industrialization, the power demand keeps rising and frequently creates mismatch between demand and supply in electricity.This provides miscellaneous en...Along with the rapid development of economics and enhancement of industrialization, the power demand keeps rising and frequently creates mismatch between demand and supply in electricity.This provides miscellaneous energy buy-back programs with great opportunities. Such programs, when activated, offer certain amount of financial compensations to participants for reducing their energy consumption during peak time. They aim at encouraging participants to shift their electricity usage from peak to non-peak time, and thereby release the demand pressure during peak time. This paper considers a periodic-review joint pricing and inventory decision model under an energy buy-back program over finite planning horizons, in which the compensation levels, setup cost and additive random demand function are incorporated. The objective is to maximize a manufacturer's expected total profit.By using Veinott's conditions, it is shown that the manufacturer's optimal decision is a state dependent(s, S, P) policy under a peak market condition, or partly an(s, S, A, P) policy under the normal market condition.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.71201175,71301032,and 71171088Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant Nos.S2011040001069 and S2012040008081Guangdong Educational Bureau Humanity&Social Science Fund under Grant No.2013WYXM0001
文摘Considering a periodic review system where the online seller allows the customers to pay when the products are delivered to them(referred as cash-on-delivery payment scheme in this paper),the authors investigate the seller's joint pricing and inventory control policy with a finite planning horizon.In particular,the authors incorporate the customers' possible order cancellation behavior with the cash-on-delivery scheme.It can be proven that the base-stock list price policy is optimal under mild conditions.The authors also analyze the impact of the customers' forward looking behavior on the optimal policy.
基金partially supported by Young Faculty Research Fund of Beijing Foreign Studies University(2015JT005)YETP(YETP0851)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71371032)Key Project of Beijing Foreign Studies University Research Programs(2011XG003)the Humanities and Social Science Research Project of Ministry of Education(13YJA630125)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Along with the rapid development of economics and enhancement of industrialization, the power demand keeps rising and frequently creates mismatch between demand and supply in electricity.This provides miscellaneous energy buy-back programs with great opportunities. Such programs, when activated, offer certain amount of financial compensations to participants for reducing their energy consumption during peak time. They aim at encouraging participants to shift their electricity usage from peak to non-peak time, and thereby release the demand pressure during peak time. This paper considers a periodic-review joint pricing and inventory decision model under an energy buy-back program over finite planning horizons, in which the compensation levels, setup cost and additive random demand function are incorporated. The objective is to maximize a manufacturer's expected total profit.By using Veinott's conditions, it is shown that the manufacturer's optimal decision is a state dependent(s, S, P) policy under a peak market condition, or partly an(s, S, A, P) policy under the normal market condition.
