Decisions of E-Commerce Supply Chain under Consumer Returns and Different Power Structures

Consumer Returns Policies and Supply Chain Performance

T paper develops a model of consumer returns policies. In our model, consumers face valuation uncertainty and realize their valuations only after purchase. There is also aggregate demand uncertainty, captured using the conventional newsvendor model. In this environment, consumers decide whether to purchase and then whether to return the product, whereas the seller sets the price, quantity, and ...

Coordinating Pricing and Ordering Decisions in a Multi-Echelon Pharmacological Supply Chain under Different Market Power using Game Theory

The importance of supply chains in pharmacological industry is remarkable so that nowadays many pharmacological supply chains have an effective and critical role for supplying and distributing drugs in health area. So, this study studies a three-echelon pharmacological supply chain contained multi-distributor of raw materials, a pharmaceutical factory, and multi-drug distributors companies such...

Energizing your Supply Chain for e-Commerce

The concepts of supply chain design and management has come to the fore, due to the everincreasing complexity of the systems driving buyer supplier relations in both industrial and consumer based markets. The unprecedented levels of supply chain management complexity are partly attributed to the Internet, through its more recent business acceptance and commercial use. This article is about new ...

Optimizing location, routing and inventory decisions in an integrated supply chain network under uncertainty

This study extends a mathematical model that integrates the location, allocation, inventory replenishment and routing decisions simultaneously. To cope with inherent uncertainty of parameters, we implement a continuous-time Markov process and derive the performance measures of the system. Using the obtained results, the problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programing model (MINLP)...

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