Joint Pricing and Inventory Policies for Make-to-Stock Products with Deterministic Price-Sensitive Demand
International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 97, No. 2, pp. 143-158, 2005
16 Pages Posted: 9 Jan 2007
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on a firm selling a single make-to-stock product to price-sensitive end customers. We develop an integrated operations-marketing model that can help determine the relevant profit-maximizing decision variable values for two pricing policies that the firm might follow - price as a decision variable, which is advocated by academicians, and mark-up pricing, used by most practitioners. We first consider an EOQ-based model with price and order quantity as independent decision variables. We then develop an analogous model where price is a mark-up over operating costs per unit, and order quantity becomes the sole decision variable. We are able to ascertain the optimal decision variable values for each model for log-linear and linear demand functions. We prove that for such profitmaximizing models, the optimal batch size is not necessarily monotone increasing in set-up cost. Interestingly, our numerical/analytical evidence suggests that from a profit perspective it is better for managers to be aggressive on price rather than reducing price too much, especially for highly price-sensitive and non-linear demand. Moreover, we establish that, in general, the profit penalty for not including inventory costs in determining the optimal batch size, or ignoring the batch size optimization issue in a mark-up price model is not significant. Only when the set-up cost is quite high and/or the firm faces non-linear demand from highly price-sensitive end consumers does it become crucial for managers to determine the exact optimal batch size and base the mark-up price on the entire unit operating cost, not only the unit (variable) production cost.
Keywords: Operations-marketing integration, Price-sensitive demand, Mark-up pricing, EOQ model
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