Delivery Service Optimization When the Information on the Consumers’ Time Values Is Asymmetric

Table 1

The optimal decisions and the resulting profits under different delivery service schemes.

	Providing single ordinary delivery	Providing single ordinary delivery	Providing mixed ordinary and expedited delivery
Lead time for ordinary delivery ()	0.707	—	1
Price for ordinary delivery ()	8.172	—	7
Lead time for expedited delivery ()	—	0.5	0.5
Price for expedited delivery ()	—	15	11
Firm’s profit ()