Pricing and Inventory Policies,

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to explore the feasibility of using profit rather than cost as the criteria for solving several traditional inventory systems. The motivation for profit optimization is basic to theory of the firm. The underlying equation for this research is: Profit = Sales - Costs. The costs considered are exclusively those associated with inventory. Sales is considered a linear or quadratic function of price. In deciding whether this approach was feasible, three inventory systems were examined; economic lot-size, economic order-level, and economic order-level - lot-size systems. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0768139

Entities

People

  • James David Finley

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Equations
  • Inventory
  • Motivation
  • Optimization

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Operations Research