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Maximisation of long-run average profit through dynamic control of production and pricing in a manufacturing system

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  • Yifan Xu
  • Hongyu Li

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This paper concerns the joint management problem of production control and dynamic pricing to balance the finished goods inventory and market demand in a make-to-stock manufacturing system using a long-run average profit criterion. In the system, the production rate is random, with a controllable mean rate, and the demand is Markov, with a changeable mean rate which depends on the sale price. The management issue is how to dynamically adjust the production rate and the selling price to maximise the long-run average profit. We discover that the optimal policy of dynamic pricing and production control over an infinite horizon is a matter of thresholds. An effective algorithm is suggested.

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  • Yifan Xu & Hongyu Li, 2008. "Maximisation of long-run average profit through dynamic control of production and pricing in a manufacturing system," International Journal of Revenue Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3), pages 272-286.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijrevm:v:2:y:2008:i:3:p:272-286
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