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Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 64 - 78

Markdown Optimization via Approximate Dynamic Programming

Authors
Özlem Coşgun, Ufuk Kula, Cengiz Kahraman
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Özlem Coşgun
Received 10 March 2012, Accepted 4 September 2012, Available Online 2 January 2013.
DOI
10.1080/18756891.2013.754181How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Approximate Dynamic Programming, Multinomial logit model, Cross-price elasticity, Markdown optimization, Pricing
Abstract

We consider the markdown optimization problem faced by the leading apparel retail chain. Because of substitution among products the markdown policy of one product affects the sales of other products. Therefore, markdown policies for product groups having a significant crossprice elasticity among each other should be jointly determined. Since the state space of the problem is very huge, we use Approximate Dynamic Programming. Finally, we provide insights on the behavior of how each product price affects the markdown policy.

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International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
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64 - 78
Publication Date
2013/01/02
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
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1875-6891
DOI
10.1080/18756891.2013.754181How to use a DOI?
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