Safe Harbors for Quantity Discounts and Bundling

Unravelling Quantity Discounts

Rationalizing Internet Safe Harbors

Internet intermediaries – service providers, Web hosting companies, Internet backbone providers, online marketplaces, and search engines – process hundreds of millions of data transfers every day, and host or link to literally tens of billions of items of third party content. They can process and host that data instantaneously only because they automate the process. Some of this content is ille...

An economic order quantity with imperfect quality and quantity discounts

Previous studies in the issue of inventory models with imperfect quality assumed the defectives could be sold in a batch by the end of the inspection process and the manufacturing systems were push systems. However, the above assumptions may not be true in the pull system in which buyer is powerful. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a new inventory model for items with imperfect quality and ...

Economic order quantity model for growing items with incremental quantity discounts

Certain inventory items are living organisms, for example livestock, and are therefore capable of growing during the replenishment cycle. These items often serve as various saleable food items downstream in supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to develop a lot sizing model for growing items if the supplier of the items offers incremental quantity discounts. A mathematical model is derive...

Quantity Premiums and Discounts in Dynamic Pricing

Abstract: We consider a dynamic pricing problem for a monopolistic company selling a perishable product when customer demand is uncertain and occurs in batches which must be fulfilled as a whole. The seller can price-discriminate between the batches of different size by setting different unit prices. The problem is modeled as a stochastic optimal control problem to find an inventory-contingent ...