Optimization of Strategic Flight Ticket Purchase

摘要

1 Introduction In the course of contract negotiations between sales and purchase enterprises in order to support strategic and operative sourcing, it is necessary to use a structured decision support system which recommends optimal purchase decisions and offers what-if analyses. The evolution and implementation of a purchase strategy according to airline tickets is able to influence corporate profitability and perform activities due to pursue the overall business units' objectives. The developed model provides a reasonable response to revenue management [4, 5] and dynamic pricing policies of sales oriented business units.