We present a framework for automatically suggesting highprofit bundle discounts based on historical customer purchase data. We develop several search algorithms that identify profit-maximizing prices and bundle discounts. We introduce a richer probabilistic valuation model than prior work by capturing complementarity, substitutability, and covariance, and we provide a hybrid search technique fo...

Unlike the traditional integrated supplier–buyer coordination model, this research incorporates overlapped delivery and imperfect items into the production–distribution model. This model improves the observable fact that the system might experience shortage during the screening duration and also takes quantity discount into account. This approach has not been discussed in previous integrated su...

Loyalty discounts are agreements to sell at a lower price to buyers who buy all or most of their purchases from the seller. This article proves that loyalty discounts can create anticompetitive effects, not only because they can impair rival efficiency, but also because loyalty discounts can perversely discourage discounting even when they have no effect on rival efficiency. The essential reaso...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a recent article in this journal, Scott (2014) documented the social welfare rationale for offering discounts to the economically disadvantaged. However, he acknowledged the conventional view is that discounts equate to reduced revenue and more tax support which makes them difficult to sustain in many communities. The goal of this paper is to offer an alternative justifica...

This data article provides detailed optimization input and output datasets and optimization code for the published research work titled "Dynamic green supplier selection and order allocation with quantity discounts and varying supplier availability" (Hamdan and Cheaitou, 2017, In press) [1]. Researchers may use these datasets as a baseline for future comparison and extensive analysis of the gre...

F in several markets attract consumers by offering discounts in other unrelated markets. This promotion strategy, which we call “cross-market discounts,” has been successfully adopted in the last few years by many grocery retailers in partnership with gasoline retailers across North America, Europe, and Australia. In this paper, we use an analytical model to investigate the major forces driving...

Biomass is an abundant energy source, particularly in Canada, as alternative or primary source for electricity generation. However, low economy of scale could cause a loss efficiency bioenergy adoption small remote communities. In this sense, coordination among the players promote and profitability supply chains these There are different strategies with varying impacts on chain players’ profit ...

In this study, we focus on a multi-stage supply chain system that operates under a JIT (just-intime) delivery policy. Kanbans play an important role in the information and material flows in a supply chain system. Thus, a kanban mechanism is employed to assist in linking different production processes in a supply chain system to implement the scope of JIT philosophy. We develop an optimal model ...