A quantity discount pricing policy for the poultry farmer with two retailers

H. Kawakatsu

Department of Economics and Information Science, Onomichi City University, Onomichi, Japan

T. Homma

Faculty of Business Administration of Policy Studies, Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan

K. Sawada

Department of Policy Studies, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Kobe, Japan

ABSTRACT: This study considers a quantity discount problem between a single seller (poultry famer) and two buyers (retailers). The poultry farmer’s inventory level increases due to the increase in the weight of the fowls. The retailers purchase fresh chicken meat from the poultry farmer, the inventory levels of the retailers are therefore depleted due to the ...

Get IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.