The Effects of Quality on Market Share and Profitability in Single Stage Make-to-Stock Production Systems

Dimitrios Konstantas (), Stratos Ioannidis (), Evangelos Grigoroudis () and Vassilis S. Kouikoglou ()
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Dimitrios Konstantas: Technical University of Crete
Stratos Ioannidis: Technical University of Crete
Evangelos Grigoroudis: Technical University of Crete
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou: Technical University of Crete

A chapter in Operational Research in Business and Economics, 2017, pp 235-245 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We develop simple models for understanding how the dynamics of quality may affect customer satisfaction and profitability in make-to-stock manufacturing systems. We study a Markovian, single stage system facing random demand. Any demand not satisfied immediately from stock is lost to competitors. The market is assumed to be finite and comprises both regular and occasional customers. Regular customers have higher mean demand rates than occasional customers. Each outgoing product is inspected and classified as high quality, medium quality, or nonconforming. The customer who purchases an item joins the regular or the occasional class, with corresponding probabilities which depend on the quality level and on past customer state. The higher the quality level, the higher the probability for a customer to remain or become a regular customer. Our goal is to investigate the structure of the optimal production, order satisfaction and quality control policy in order to maximize the average profit rate of the system. We investigate numerically the structure of the optimal policy using stochastic dynamic programming.

Keywords: Production control; Quality control; Markov decision processes; Make-to-stock production systems; Customer satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33003-7_12

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