Optimal quoting of delivery time by a third party logistics provider: The impact of shipment consolidation and temporal pricing schemes |
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Authors: | M Ali Ülkü James H Bookbinder |
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Institution: | 1. School of Management and Leadership, Capital University, 1 College and Main, Columbus, OH 43209, United States;2. Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada |
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Abstract: | Increased competition in business environments requires that firms provide not only quality but also timely service with minimal cost. Offering a delivery-time guarantee may increase the demand for a product or service, or allow the firm to charge a price premium. This paper investigates the effects of different pricing schemes for a Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider. The 3PL tenders a consolidated load to a carrier that line-hauls over a certain origin–destination lane. In a price- and time-sensitive logistics market, we derive the optimal quotations that should be made for price and delivery-time, with the objective of maximizing the profit rate of the 3PL provider. We propose four easy-to-use temporal pricing schemes, and derive the corresponding optimal length of shipment consolidation cycles and the prices. Depending on the logistics market parameters, we show that charging according to an order’s time of arrival is not necessarily the best pricing scheme. Various managerial insights and numerical examples with sensitivity analysis are provided. |
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Keywords: | Logistics Order consolidation Optimization Revenue management Price- and time-sensitive demand Delivery-time guarantee |
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