Supply chain contract evolution

Supply Chain Analysis of Contract Farming

Contract farming is a growing practice in developing countries and first-world economies, alike. It generates necessary guarantees to sustain the continued operations of vulnerable farmers while enabling the manufacturers to manage the aggregate supply and price risk. We consider a single manufacturer who owns several manufacturing plants, each with a random demand for the crop. The manufacture...

Risk Aversion and Supply Chain Contract Negotiation

Evolution and modeling in sustainable supply chain management research

Numerous researchers and practitioners are attracted to sustainability in supply chains (SCS) and it has become one of the favorite topics among academics and industries. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the research studies that have been published in the field of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). A total 242 articles published between 2000 and 2019 reviewed. Conten...

Supply Chain Contract Design Under Financial Constraints and Bankruptcy Costs

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Supply Chain Coordination with Option Contract and Demand Information Asymmetry

This paper deals with the coordination of supply chain composed of a leading supplier and one retailer as a follower under asymmetric demand information. The demand information asymmetry is portrayed by the state of demand forecast information, accordingly the model, the state of demand information is the special discrete distribution, is established. The parameters menus, which are the optimal...