Under the background of the globalization, the competition among the enterprises becomes more and more fierce. And the speed of the product circulation is faster than before. Under this background, if the company forecasts the product demand more accurate, the company can plan the product planning according to the demand. The companies can improve the competitiveness. In this paper, we apply th...

It has been widely recognized that different flexibility types (e.g. product or mix flexibility, volume flexibility, platform-based flexibility, etc.) are interrelated and that exploiting the linkages between flexibility types can aid decision-making. In particular, both product flexibility and volume flexibility are tools for coping with uncertain demand. In this paper, we explore the intertwi...

In this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. The results showed that the ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had positive, significant effecton the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. Also, square ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. After estimat...

This essay analyzes the market demand by eligible participants for in-kind transfer payments of the type that reduce the free market price participants would otherwise have to pay for the product being subsidized. Examples are the Food Stamp Program, public housing programs, and such proposed programs as rent subsidy and health co-insurance programs. Two common forms for such programs are analy...

We address a generic price competition model in an industry with an arbitrary number of competitors, each offering all or a subset of a given line of N products. The products are substitutes in the sense that the demand volume of each product weakly increases whenever the price of another product increases. The cost structure is linear, with arbitrary cost rates. Our demand model is the unique ...