Economic Order Quality Model for Determining the Sales Prices of Fresh Goods at Various Points in Time

Chen, Po-Yu

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6967501

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Economic Order Quality Model for Determining the Sales Prices of Fresh Goods at Various Points in Time

Po-Yu Chen¹

Academic Editor: Yong He

Received13 Jan 2017

Revised13 Jul 2017

Accepted02 Aug 2017

Published10 Sept 2017

Abstract

Although the safe consumption of goods such as food products, medicine, and vaccines is related to their freshness, consumers frequently understand less than suppliers about the freshness of goods when they purchase them. Because of this lack of information, apart from sales prices, consumers refer only to the manufacturing and expiration dates when deciding whether to purchase and how many of these goods to buy. If dealers could determine the sales price at each point in time and customers’ intention to buy goods of varying freshness, then dealers could set an optimal inventory cycle and allocate a weekly sales price for each point in time, thereby maximizing the profit per unit time. Therefore, in this study, an economic order quality model was established to enable discussion of the optimal control of sales prices. The technique for identifying the optimal solution for the model was determined, the characteristics of the optimal solution were demonstrated, and the implications of the solution’s sensitivity analysis were explained.

1. Introduction

Previous studies have demonstrated the relevance of food freshness and consumer utility. Although consumers judge food freshness through the senses [1–4] and through labels containing information on the manufacture and expiration date, the freshness information available to consumers remains asymmetrical. This asymmetry usually originates from how retailers perform () fresh food replenishment and () relabeling. When retailers replenish their goods, their shelves contain the same goods with differing expiration dates, and the retailers’ clever arrangement and stacking of the goods render consumers more likely to access those with closer expiration dates. In practice, retailers offer discounts on fresh goods with closer expiration dates, thus requiring the goods to be relabeled. Many supermarkets employ fixed percentage labeling (such as 20% discounts) to affect consumers’ purchase behaviors. However, the relabeling of fresh goods may involve human error factors (even tampering with expiration dates). Therefore, numerous supermarkets in Europe, the United States, and Japan employ label management models containing expiration dates based on the label dates and solar dates, although this also leads to freshness information gaps between consumers and retailers. In addition, some chain retailers adopt the same price discounts for expiring fresh goods (e.g., Taiwan’s PX Mart supermarket chain offering 20% discounts for expiring fresh goods) while overlooking various factors relating to consumers’ demands for goods with differing expiration dates (degree of freshness). This practice is clearly inappropriate. Such neglect has a significant impact on consumers’ price discrimination and retailers’ expected profits [5, 6]. If dealers can determine the sales price at each point in time and customers’ intention to buy food of varying freshness, then dealers can set an optimal inventory cycle and allocate a weekly sales price for each point in time, thereby maximizing the profit per unit time.

The research frameworks for studying the inventory optimization problems of fresh (or perishable) goods tend to be highly complex because the freshness of goods affects consumer utility and thus their demands. The earliest literature review on the inventory model for deteriorating items was a review of inventory models for perishable goods conducted by Nahmias [7], which was expanded by Goyala and Giri [8]. Literature reviews published from 2011 to 2016 have treated fresh (or perishable) goods as a distinct classification and examined relevant research. For detailed literature reviews on the inventory model for deteriorating items, see Nahmias [9], Karaesmen et al. [10], Bakker et al. [11], and Janssen et al. [12]. This study avoided repeating these previous works and instead focused on a deeper exploration of the problems involved in fresh goods inventories.

The traditional economic order quantity (EOQ) model was designed to solve the problem encountered by buy-in and sell-out dealers, who determine the inventory standard of goods at the beginning of each period in response to the given demand rate of goods, thereby minimizing the cost per unit time. To expand the applications of the conventional EOQ model, various types of extended inventory models have been developed by inventory management scholars in recent years in their studies on fresh (or perishable) goods inventories. According to loosened assumptions, these extended models (some of which can be categorized as hybrid models comprising more than one type) can be divided into the following types.

Type 1. The assumption of the traditional EOQ model has been relaxed from “the demand rate is a given constant” to “the demand rate varies according to time” [13–32].

Type 2. The assumption of the traditional EOQ model has been changed from “goods are nondegenerative” to “goods are degenerative goods (e.g., petroleum and other volatile products) that decrease in volume over time even when unsold” [33–36]. Since 2010, an increasing number of studies on deteriorating goods inventory have focused on fresh (perishable) goods whose quality deteriorates over time [25, 37–48].

Type 3. The assumption of the traditional EOQ model has been changed from “the unit prices of the goods acquired (purchased) by dealers are a fixed constant” to “unit prices may be affected by lot size owing to volume discounts” [14, 49–56].

Type 4. The assumption of the traditional EOQ model has been relaxed from “sales prices are a given constant (fixed demand rate)” to “sales prices are a decision variable for dealers” [25, 38, 50, 57–73].

Numerous inventory models for fresh (or perishable) goods have been proposed in the past 20 years, with pricing problems being one of the most extensively researched topics in the past 10 years. Most research on pricing problems has concentrated on discount optimization; only a few scholars have specifically studied dynamic price optimization, and most of which studies have been conducted in the past 5-6 years [25, 38, 67–73]. In this study, goods dealers were assumed to possess the opportunity and capability to determine sales prices at each point in time (sales prices are the decision variable for goods dealers). This assumption supports the Type 4 EOQ model, which posits that dealers may decide the sales prices at each point in time, in comparison to the traditional model that states dealers may determine only one sales price standard.

2. Mathematical Model

2.1. Parameters

: time at which goods expire. Specifically, represents the duration from the time of goods purchase to the time of their expiration. : storage cost of a unit of goods within a unit time. : purchase price of a unit of goods. : setup cost.

2.2. Given Functions

: the potential demand rate for goods as reflected by customer reaction to the sales price , where . A potential demand rate indicates the demand rate for goods when customers became aware of the sales price at the point in time but are not aware of or have not considered the expiration time . In this study, a linear function of the sales price at the point in time was established as follows: : maximal limit of the potential demand rate, where . : maximal limit of . This means that, at the point of time , : the intentions of consumers to purchase goods when consumers enter the place of sale at point in time , learn about the sales price , become potential demanders for the goods, and find that the remaining time until the goods’ expiration is . In particular, is the linear decreasing function of , and satisfies and .

Thus

2.3. Decision Variables

: sales price at the point in time , where . : inventory standard at , where is the decreasing function of in the inventory period corresponding to , and . : duration of the inventory cycle corresponding to the dealer decision variable . Because represents the expiration time of the goods, corresponding to the target function must fulfill the following inequality: : per unit time profit of the dealer’s decision variable corresponding to the inventory cycle ; that is, : sales rate of the goods corresponding to at the point in time .

From (1) and (3), the following is obtained:Because , the following can be obtained from the preceding equation:From (7), the following can be obtained:

Through (7) and (8), the mathematical model that dealers can use to determine the decision variable to maximize the profit per unit time corresponding to is established as follows:

3. Optimal Solution of Model (9)

Assume is the optimal solution of (9). The required conditions of are obtained in the following procedures.

corresponding to the feasible solution in (9) must fulfill the following inequality:If , then dealers can reduce the initial amount of purchase at and shorten the inventory cycle , thereby maximizing the profit.

Because the objective function of (10) is exceptional (the integral value must be divided by ) and the feasible solution must fulfill the constraint that , (9) becomes a nonstandard calculus of variation problem. Identifying the conditions required for the optimal solution to this problem is the focus of this section.

To solve (9), it was divided into two problems, namely, (11) and (13). Given the value, let be the optimal solution of (11) and the target value of the optimal solution; that is,

Let be the optimal solution of (11); the difference between (9) and (11) is as follows: the period of a cycle in the feasible solutions to problem (11) equals the given value, and the function and target value of the optimal solution vary according to the given value. If the given value in (11) is applied as the period of the function of the optimal solution to (9) (let , and substitute it into (11)), as seen, the optimal solution of (9) will also be the optimal solution of (11); that is,Compared with (9) and (11), (12) can be employed to obtain as the optimal solution to (13):because (11) involves the constraint , such that (11) is still a nonstandard calculus of variation problem. Therefore, this constraint was neglected temporarily, and the following standard calculus of variation problem (14) was considered.

Applying the existing theory of calculus of variations to this type of problem [74] yields the optimal solution to (14) labeled as . The following conditions must be fulfilled.

The condition of the Euler equation:

The condition of as a target salvage value:Integrating with (15) and using (16) yield the following formula:Using (2), (10), and (17), the following is obtained:

Because the set of feasible solutions for (14) includes those for (11), the feasible solutions for (11) are also feasible solutions for (14). However, the feasible solutions for (14) may not necessarily be those for (11). Therefore, the optimal solution to (18) has been verified to also be the optimal solution to (11).

Integrating (17) and using yield the following:By partial integration,Using (21) and applying (19) into the objective function (11) yield the following:From (22), the optimal solution to (13) is acquired. The following conditions must be satisfied (see Appendix A for details):As (2) and (10) reveal, ; (4) indicates that . Therefore, (24) confirms thatThis process indicates the following.

satisfying the first-order conditions of the optimal solutions in (23) must also satisfy the second-order conditions of the optimal solutions in (25).

Figure 1 depicts for (23).

Next, (12), (18), and (20) can be used to obtain the optimal solution of (9):From (27) and (8), the optimal price can be obtained:Problem (28) indicates that the initial optimal sales price for a favorable is ; the initial unit profit, , is .

Problem (26) reveals that if changes in some of the parameters cause and to change, then the rate of change for these two parameters is expressed as follows:

This function illustrates that the rate of change of the initial inventory standard at the beginning of the inventory cycle of the goods to the optimal inventory period is equal to the sales rate of the goods at the end of the inventory cycle .

4. Sensitivity Analysis of the Optimal Solution

If the sensitivity analysis result of from (26), (27), and (28) is obtained, then the sensitivity analysis result of the optimal inventory function, , and the optimal sales price function, , can be acquired.

4.1. Effect of Changes in on

As shown in Figure 1, when increases, the area of BCD increases, and the curves in the figure remain unchanged. Thus, increases. Therefore,

However, is labeled as because it varies according to in (24). Partially differentiating with (24) yields the following formula:

4.2. Effect of Changes in on

Partially differentiating with (23) yields the following formula (see Appendix B for details):

The incorporation of (32) and (33) verifies that . In Scenario (1), assume that is shown at the point in Figure 2. The numerator of (32) is larger than zero; therefore, . In Scenario (2), assume that is shown at the point in Figure 2. Then, (33) reveals that .

4.3. Effect of Changes in on

By partially differentiating with (23), the following formula is obtained (see Appendix C for details):

4.4. Effect of Changes in on

Partially differentiating with (23) yields the following formula (see Appendix D for details):( changes; see Figure 4).

5. Conclusions

This study divided the inventory promotion model of fresh goods into four categories and examined published academic journals papers that have investigated these categories, finding that few scholars have studied the dynamic pricing of fresh goods. The EOQ model established in this study enables dealers to determine sales prices at each point in time after the relationship between consumer reactions to the freshness of the goods and purchasing intentions is determined.

The optimal inventory cycle can be obtained from (23), and the implication of is illustrated in Figure 1. Within the optimal inventory cycle , the optimal inventory standard at is expressed in (26), the optimal sales rate at is expressed in (27), and the optimal sales price at is expressed in (28).

We also analyzed the sensitivity of the optimal solution to changes in each variable. The results revealed the following. (a) The optimal inventory cycle and the initial inventory standard both increased as the setup cost increased; the rate of change is displayed in (31) and (29). (b) and both increased as the expiration time of the goods increased; the rate of change is shown in (32) and (29). (c) and both decreased as the inventory cost increased; the rate of change is illustrated in (34) and (29). (d) and both increased as the unit purchase price increased; the rate of change is depicted in (35) and (29).

The main contribution of this research model to management is the incorporation of consumers’ demand response to the manufacture and expiration dates (or degree of freshness) of fresh goods. Retailers tend to have both old and new goods on their shelves when replenishing fresh goods—that is, they stock same goods with differing expiration dates. They may even have differing expiration dates despite having the same manufacture dates because of environmental factors such as transportation and storage. Therefore, retailers can set the prices at different time points of the goods’ shelf life instead of adopting a straightforward price discount as in the past, which may cause them to lose part of their expected profits. Using the parameters to determine the rate of change for the optimal solution can assist fresh goods retailers in conducting immediate price control.

Appendix

A. The Necessary Condition for the Optimal Solution

From (22), the optimal solution to (13) is acquired. The following conditions must be satisfied:

B. Derivation Process of in Section 4.2

In (23), because varies according to , is labeled as . Partially differentiating with (23) yields the following formula:Thus

C. Derivation Process of in Section 4.3

By partially differentiating with (23), the following formula is obtained (see Appendix B for details):Thus(verified using Figure 3 and referencing (32) and (33)).

D. Derivation Process of in Section 4.4

In (23), because varies according to , is labeled as . Partially differentiating with (23) yields the following formula:Thus

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares that they have no conflicts of interest.

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