Aimed at the possibility of stock-out of the traditional retail channel under stochastic demand in a dual-channel supply chain, we propose a cooperative inventory strategy, in which the excess demand of the traditional retail channel is complemented by the excess inventory of the manufacturer’s direct channel through transshipment. We establish a newsboy model to analyse each supply chain membe...

In recent years, comprehensive researches have provided ample support for the supply chains in the coordinated decision-making framework. However, the issue of closed-loop supply chain coordination considering various transportation modes has not yet been addressed in the literature. In this paper, a two-echelon closed-loop supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer is investigate...

Double marginalization effect refers to the phenomenon that when both upstream and downstream firms have monopolistic power, customers pay higher retail price and firms make less profit than when the supply chain is vertically integrated (Tirole, 1988). Although double marginalization effect has been extensively studied in the context of supply chain management for mature products, very limited...

Supply Chain operation is an integrated business process starting from primary supplier to end user and the process produce products, services and information. A successful chain will explore technology, lean operations, and quality management by adding value for customers and stakeholders. It is a strategic alliance among the partnering enterprises without geographical boundary. Every chain ha...

Military clothing retailers employ a traditional Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) strategy, producing infrequent, large orders that cause serious production scheduling and delivery problems for manufacturers, producing what is sometimes called the bullwhip effect. These problems delay manufacturer response and cause stock outages at the retailer. This paper describes a decision support system that...

This paper investigates pricing and ordering as well as advertising coordination issues in a single-manufacturer single-retailer supply chain, where the manufacturer sells a newsvendor-type product through the retailer who faces a stochastic demand depending on both retail price and advertising expenditure. Under the assumption that the market demand has a multiplicative functional form, the St...

We investigate advertising level, pricing and production decision problems in a supply chain when demand and cost disruptions occur simultaneously. The channel consists of one manufacturer and one retailer where demand depends on retail price and advertisement expenditure. We examine the case in both cooperative game and non-cooperative Stackelberg game.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is a disruptive technology that transmits information like barcodes but does not need “line of sight” contact to function. These systems allow managers to better monitor the supply chain by transmitting data in real time. Faster, more accurate information helps managers to make better decisions. Companies like Procter and Gamble have reduced inve...

Using the price for recycling used home appliances as a variable in the decision-making process, this paper studies the pricing decision-making process of the home appliances enterprises when a wholesale and retail price for the green home appliances have already been determined in advance. Considering the influences of the effective recycle behavior of the used home appliances to the whole sup...

F F Abstract—This paper analyzes the buyback contract of a supply chain including one retailer, one distributor and one supplier in a fuzzy decision making environment. The market demand is characterized as a fuzzy variable. To defuzzify the fuzzy number into a crisp one, the weighted possibilistic mean value method is applied, and the risk attitudes of the supply chain members are also conside...