This work focus mainly on a specific question: for an adopted contract, what are the decisions to be taken for each company taking into account his own interests, knowing that these decisions influence the behavior of the other company and in consequence the coordination of the chain. This may be also explained using the terms of Cachon (2004) who clearly presents this situation: “Optimal suppl...

Acknowledgement: We thank the Chief Editor (Professor Asoo J. Vakharia), the Senior Editor, the Associate Editor, and two referees for their invaluable suggestions that helped improve the clarity and quality of this paper. The order of authorship is alphabetical, and the authors contributed equally to the manuscript. ABSTRACT We analyse the effect of equity-based incentives in a supply chain wi...

Under a revenue-sharing contract, a retailer pays a supplier a wholesale price for each unit purchased plus a percentage of the revenue the retailer generates. Such contracts have become more prevalent in the video cassette rental industry relative to the more conventional wholesale price contract. This paper studies revenue-sharing contracts in a general supply chain model with revenues determ...

We analyzed the text of 704 online advertisements of supply chain management jobs for MBA graduates. The content analysis of these job advertisements provided us with a list of supply chain topics, such as inventory management and supply management, and general skills, such as communication and leadership; it also showed the proportion of advertisements requesting these skills. We measured the ...

C with suppliers prone to default is an increasingly common problem in some industries, particularly automotive manufacturing. We model this phenomenon as a two-period contracting game with two identical suppliers, a single buyer, deterministic demand, and uncertain production costs. The suppliers are distressed at the start of the game and do not have access to external sources of capital; hen...

A key element to a company’s success is its ability to match its supply to uncertain demand by utilizing different types of capacity contracts. We consider the design of a multi-product supply chain, for which each product requires one or more process capabilities and each process can get capacity from multiple resources. We present a single-period model to determine the capacity investments fo...

In this paper, the authors focus on examining the coordination mechanisms for a two-stage supply chain comprising one supplier and one retailer. The authors consider such a channel relationship that the transaction quantity between the two members is sensitive to the supplier’s inventory level and that the supplier’s unit inventory holding cost has a linear stepwise structure. They devise a coo...