A linkage of markdown pricing with aggregate production planning

Wenyun Zhu, William Chung

    Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

    Abstract

    This paper is to study the significance of the cooperation between the markdown policy and the aggregate planning so as to simulate the cooperation between retailers and manufacturers. A fuzzy nonlinear programming model, named Aggregate Production Planning-Markdown Pricing Model (APP-MP), is established by integrating the markdown model into Aggregate Production Planning model. Due to the uncertainty of business information and environment, some cost elements are considered to be fuzzy number so that the objective function is fuzzy in nature. The fuzzy programming model is transformed into a crisp parametric model to be solved. The parametric APP-MP is able to help the retailer and the manufacturer flexibly make the pricing decisions, including the magnitude and time of markdown, and production decisions based on different satisfaction levels so that greater profits could be obtained. The example solution shows that the cooperation definitely increases the profits. ©2008 IEEE.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
    Pages1839-1844
    Volume2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008 - Beijing, China
    Duration: 12 Oct 200815 Oct 2008

    Publication series

    Name
    Volume2

    Conference

    Conference2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityBeijing
    Period12/10/0815/10/08

    Research Keywords

    • Aggregate production planning
    • Cooperation
    • Fuzzy programming
    • Markdown pricing

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