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Capacity Allocation and Dynamic Pricing
I acknowledge assistance from Prof. Arnd Huchzermeier and Dean Eric Johnson for portions of these slides.
Prof. Arnd Huchzermeier, Dean M. Eric Johnson, Prof. Warren H.
Hausman
5%
Airport-toairport
Air
cargo
carrier
Shipper
Door-to-door
95%
Forwarder
Consignee
Forwarder
III.
Buffer
High
margin
products
Rate (EUR/kg)
Express
products
II.
III.
GCA*
Presold
II. capacity
I.
Capacity
Purchasing
Agreements
(CPA)
Capacity
Access
Price
I.
Controlled
space
?
12
1
0
Months before departure
Expected Revenue?
Overbooking in Cargo
cu
Case 2: We overbooked too much - we overestimated no-shows
Over-selling cost is estimated to be $4/lb (reroute, bad will, )
There were 700 lb no-shows, but we overbooked by 701 lb - how much more
could we have made if we had overbooked by 1 fewer lb?
co
cu
CriticalRatio =
=
cu + co
Prof. Arnd Huchzermeier, Dean M. Eric Johnson, Prof. Warren H.
Hausman
Overbooking Example
Assumptions:
Rate
Demand
Forecast
available
Capacity
Weight
Max. Revenue
Bid-Price
Wrap-up