Determining Optimal Demand Rate and Production Decisions: A Geometric Programming Approach

In this paper a nonlinear model is presented to demonstrate the relation between production and marketing departments. By introducing some functions such as pricing cost and market share loss functions it will be tried to show some aspects of market modelling which has not been regarded before. The proposed model will be a constrained signomial geometric programming model. For model solving, after variables- modifications an iterative technique based on the concept of geometric mean will be introduced to solve the resulting non-standard posynomial model which can be applied to a wide variety of models in non-standard posynomial geometric programming form. At the end a numerical analysis will be presented to accredit the validity of the mentioned model.

Authors:

• Farnaz G. Nezami
• Mir B. Aryanezhad
• Seyed J. Sadjadi

Keywords:

• Geometric programming
• marketing
• nonlinear optimization
• production.

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