Optimal multiple-breakpoint quantity discount schedules for customers with heterogeneous demands: All-unit or incremental?

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-214

  Chen, Rachel R ^a   Robinson, Lawrence W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

all unit quantity discounts; heterogeneous buyers; incremental quantity discounts; multiple breakpoint

Indexed keywords

BREAK-POINTS; HETEROGENEOUS BUYERS; HETEROGENEOUS DEMAND; INVENTORY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE-BREAKPOINT; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARETO CURVE; QUANTITY DISCOUNT;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; OPTIMIZATION;

SALES;

EID: 84855943538     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2011.568038     Document Type: Article

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