TY - JOUR ID - 92506 TI - Integrated Competitive Pricing and Transshipment Problem for Short Life Cycle Products’ Supply Chain JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Taheri-Moghadam, Alireza AU - Razmi, Jafar AU - Jolai, fariborz AU - Taleizadeh, Ata Allah AD - School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 32 IS - 8 SP - 1192 EP - 1199 KW - Acquisition management KW - Closed-loop supply chain KW - Fleet Assignment KW - new product development KW - Stackelberg game DO - 10.5829/ije.2019.32.08b.16 N2 - This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. The network design problem aims to determine network flow and fleet assignment in each route. The proposed model is solved by various methods including exact and meta-heuristic approaches. The model and solving approaches have been validated and verified by several simulated examples and sensitivity analyses. Considering life cycle phases, competitive pricing, and transshipment problems as an integrated model, provides a new approach for the optimum solutions, which makes it more practical for application of real cases of short life cycle products. The results showed how the competition and fleet assignment influenced the optimum solution. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_92506.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_92506_bc4e91de5f18b55c9b7b7977ad1e8211.pdf ER -