Seasonal items like fruits, fish, winter cosmetics, fashion apparel, etc. generally exhibits different demand patterns at various times during the season. Production and inventory planning must reflect this property for cost effectiveness and optimization of resources. This paper presents two production-inventory models for perishable seasonal products that minimize total inventory costs. The m...

The perishable product’s dynamic pricing with quantity discount strategy is studied. The seller uses two-period dynamic price during the whole sale period and introduces quantity discount in second sale period in order to improve the seller’s profit. The mathematic model expressions are obtained by assuming that consumer’s reservation price draws from a uniform distribution and the price discou...

The determination of retailers to deal with the challenges managing perishable products’ category continues as they persist provide quality service and fresh products their customers. These often afflict consumers alike, which innately impact management good consumer behavior. This article reports on a study that investigates influence consumers’ purchase behavior products. objectives this are ...

This thesis presents a dynamic pricing model where a seller offers two types of a generic product to a random number of customers. Customers show up sequentially. When a customer arrives, he will —depending on the prices—either purchase one unit of type 1 product or one unit of type 2 product, or will leave empty-handed. The sale ends either when the entire stock is sold out, or when the custom...

My dissertation addresses a number of challenges in perishable inventory management in supply chains, providing both theoretical results and managerial insights. Essay 1: In this essay, we review the literature on supply chain management of perishable products that have a fixed or random lifetime, primarily focusing on challenges introduced by aging of such products. We start with a review of t...