| Article ID: | iaor200971638 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 1206 |
| End Page Number: | 1219 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Savin Sergei, Muharremoglu Alp, elik Sabri |
| Keywords: | inventory |
We consider a novel variant of the perishable inventory profit management problem faced by a firm that sells a fixed inventory over a finite horizon in the presence of price-adjustment costs. In economics literature, such price-adjustment costs are widely studied and are typically assumed to include a fixed component (e.g., advertising costs), an inventory-dependent component (e.g., inventory relabeling costs), as well as a component that depends on the magnitude of the price adjustment (e.g., cognitive and coordination managerial costs).