A stochastic biomass blending problem in decentralized supply chains

Stochastic cooperative advertising in a manufacturer–retailer decentralized supply channel

This work considers cooperative advertising in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain. While the manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader, the retailer is the follower. Using Sethi model it models the dynamic effect of the manufacturer and retailer’s advertising efforts on sale. It uses optimal control technique and stochastic differential game theory to obtain the players’ advertising strategies a...

Material Management in Decentralized Supply Chains

Decentralized Supply Chains Subject to Information Delays

We consider a supply chain whose members are divisions of the same firm. The divisions are managed by different individuals with only local inventory information. Both the material and information flows in the supply chain are subject to delays. Under the assumption that the division managers share a common goal to optimize the overall performance of the supply chain (i.e., they act as a team),...

Decentralized Supply Chains Coordination under Uncertain Competitiveness

The coordination of decentralized multi-site multi-product manufacturing SCs is achieved through Scenario-Based Negotiations (SBNs) based on expected winwin principles in an uncertain competitive environment. Based on the nonsymmetric roles of the different actors, the client (SC leader) is supposed to propose coordination contracts according to its best expected conditions, taking into account...

Optimizing decentralized production–distribution planning problem in a multi-period supply chain network under uncertainty

Decentralized supply chain management is found to be significantly relevant in today’s competitive markets. Production and distribution planning is posed as an important optimization problem in supply chain networks. Here, we propose a multi-period decentralized supply chain network model with uncertainty. The imprecision related to uncertain parameters like demand and price of the final produc...