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- Title
Joint inventory and pricing decisions for perishable products with two-period lifetime.
- Authors
ChEN, Li ‐ Ming; Sapra, Amar
- Abstract
We consider a periodic review model over a finite horizon for a perishable product with fixed lifetime equal to two review periods. The excess demand in a period is backlogged. The optimal replenishment and demand management (using price) decisions for such a product depend on the relative order of consumption of fresh and old units. We obtain insights on the structure of these decisions when the order of consumption is first-in, first-out and last-in, first-out. For the FIFO system, we also obtain bounds on both the optimal replenishment quantity as well as expected demand. We compare the FIFO system to two widely analyzed inventory systems that correspond to nonperishable and one-period lifetime products to understand if demand management would modify our understanding of the relationship among the three systems. In a counterintuitive result, we find that it is more likely that bigger orders are placed in the FIFO system than for a nonperishable product when demand is managed. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013
- Subjects
JOINT inventors; PERISHABLE goods; ECONOMIC demand; FIRST in, first out (Accounting); FOOD consumption
- Publication
Naval Research Logistics, 2013, Vol 60, Issue 5, p343
- ISSN
0894-069X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nav.21538