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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2024, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (11): 115-124.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.2584

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Dynamic Control and Optimization of Production with Capital Injection

Kuankuan Zheng1,2, Jiyang Tan1(), Zhike Lv2, Longlong Niu1   

  1. 1. School of Mathematics and Computation Science,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan 411105,China
    2. Business Shool,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan 411105,China
  • Received:2022-11-29 Revised:2023-02-20 Online:2024-11-25 Published:2024-12-09
  • Contact: Jiyang Tan

Abstract:

A common problem in the production and management of enterprises,especially retail enterprises, how to make reasonable purchasing and production plans to achieve the business objectives of enterprises, is studied in this paper. In addition to production,sales,inventory and other activities,paying dividends to shareholders and accepting capital injection from shareholders are also essential links of enterprises. It is of practical significance to formulate purchasing and production strategies with the goal of maximizing shareholders’ interests.On the basis of previous relevant studies,it is considered that enterprises operate a class of products,similar to the multi-cycle newsboy model. An enterprise controls the purchase or production and capital flow,adopts the barrier dividend strategy to pay dividends to shareholders at the end of each cycle,or accepts capital injection from shareholders when the amount of cash held is insufficient to pay the optimal production cost in the next period. In addition,it is assumed that the unit production cost of any period,the unit selling price of the previous period and the quantity demanded obey a joint distribution. In this paper,a discrete time Markov decision model is proposed to maximize the future cumulative expected discounted returns of shareholders,the aim is to find the optimal production strategy and the corresponding optimal value function. Under the condition that the assessment period is limited,the iterative relation satisfied by the optimal value function is given by the formula of total expectation. When the assessment period is unlimited,the Bellman equation satisfied by the value function is given,and the optimal value function is proved to be the only solution by the contraction mapping principle.Finally,a numerical example is given according to the method provided in this paper,and the results mainly provide the following information: 1) When the duration of the assessment period is limited,the optimal production strategy of each period which is far away from the expiration time basically remains unchanged. When other conditions remain unchanged,the optimal production of each period shows a monotonous trend with the increase of the initial inventory. When the inventory reaches a certain value,the production is 0,indicating that the inventory should be sold first and no reproduction is needed. 2) When the duration of the assessment period is unlimited,the value function of a finite assessment period with sufficient length can approximate the optimal value function of the infinite case. The length of the finite assessment period can be calculated when the error is given. 3) No matter the assessment period is finite or infinite,the value of the optimal value function is affected by the dividend barrier,and the decision maker can adjust the dividend barrier appropriately to achieve the optimal state.A decision method for enterprises is provided,and the research on enter prise decision making is enriched.

Key words: capital injection strategy, barrier dividend strategy, optimal production strategy, Bellman equation, contraction mapping

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