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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2026, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 178-191.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2024.1365

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Joint Pricing and Fulfillment Optimization for Omni-channel Retailers Considering Fulfillment Location Selection and Resources Sharing among Channels

Bilin Zou, Xiaohui Lyu(), Xiaohong Zhang   

  1. School of Politics and Public Administration,Soochow University,Suzhou 215003,China
  • Received:2024-08-13 Revised:2025-05-11 Online:2026-04-25 Published:2026-03-27
  • Contact: Xiaohui Lyu E-mail:xhlyu@suda.edu.cn

Abstract:

The omni-channel retail model reconstructs the way in which the traditional retail industry creates value online or offline. With the implementation of this model, a large number of retailers blindly imitate the business model and make separate decisions on online and offline channel pricing and fulfillment optimization, which makes it difficult for online and offline channels to exert complementary advantages. Therefore, in view of the actual situation that omni-channel retailers can choose fulfillment centers and physical stores to circulate and process goods in multi-period and multi-region, and in order to improve the utilization efficiency of online and offline channel resources, the joint optimization problem of pricing and fulfillment decision is studied considering fulfillment location selection and resource sharing among channels. Among them, the fulfillment decision includes fulfillment location selection decision, inventory decision and transportation decision. Focusing on research problem, a mixed integer nonlinear programming model for joint optimization of pricing and fulfillment decision of omni-channel retailers is established with the goal of maximizing the total profit of omni-channel retailers. Based on this model, an optimization model considering resources sharing among online and offline channels is established to further explore how to rationally allocate the resources of each channel. Then, a co-evolutionary algorithm is proposed to solve the model. Finally, the effectiveness of the co-evolutionary algorithm is verified by numerical experiments. The results show that: there is a correlation between pricing decision and fulfillment decision, and considering the fulfillment location selection in fulfillment decision can significantly improve the total profit of the omni-channel retailers; fully sharing and integrating resources among online and offline channels enables omni-channel retailers to make decisions that reduce fulfillment costs, thereby increasing the total profit of the omni-channel retail network, and the larger the network size, the more obvious the increase in the total profit of omni-channel retailers.

Key words: joint pricing and fulfillment optimization, fulfillment location selection, resources sharing among channels, omni-channel retail, co-evolutionary algorithm

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