Optimal pricing and inventory policies with reliable and random-yield suppliers: characterization and comparison

Abstract

In this paper, we study the joint pricing and inventory replenishment problem for a periodic-review inventory system with random demand and dual suppliers, one of the suppliers is reliable but more expensive, the other supplier is less expensive but is unre- liable with random yield. We characterize the firm's optimal policies that simultaneously determine the optimal ordering and pricing decisions in each period over a finite planning horizon, and investigate the impacts of supply source diversification and supplier reliability on the firm and on its customers. We show that having source diversification or higher reliability of suppliers not only increases the firm's expected profit, but also results in a lower optimal selling price, thus they benefit both the firm and its customers.

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