Multi-buyer discount pricing (Q1117816)

This article gives an exact optimal solution to the problem of finding the optimal discount price and price break quantity for a seller dealing with one buyer. It also gives a method for solving the problem when one seller offers a single quantity discount schedule to many buyers. The discount is of the `all quantity' type and the model of the cost structure was originally proposed by \textit{J. Crowther} [Harvard Business Review 42 (1967)].