We consider a capital-constrained contract-farming supply chain with risk-averse farmer and risk-neutral agro-dealer, where the faces some yield uncertainty that can be covered by insurance. Using Stackelberg model, we derive optimal strategies on insured level, production wholesale price. The result shows farmers low risk aversion tend not to insured, while those high insure. Further analysis ...

Buy online and pickup in-store (BOPS), a novel omnichannel retail model that provides customers with seamless channel experience, is increasing prevalence in the electronic commerce era. This paper develops theoretical to investigate co-opetition strategy of an supply chain where manufacturer sets up BOPS cooperation retailer. Two game models absence presence contract are constructed considerin...

Analysis of the characteristics of agricultural product price volatility and trend forecasting are necessary to formulate and implement agricultural price control policies. Taking wholesale cabbage prices as an example, a multiple test methodology has been adopted to identify the nonlinearity, fractality, and chaos of the data. The approaches used include the R/S analysis, the BDS test, the pow...

This study estimates demand during the 1980-90 period for wholesale beef cuts by season and by trend. A data set containing monthly nominal prices for wholesale cuts and average choice boxed beef from January 1980 to December 1990 was collected from multiple sources, The approach expressed the change in demand for wholede cuts as the change in the price ratio of individual cuts relative to the ...

This paper considers an online retailer and his or her manufacturer, both facing financial constraints wishing to get loans from their e-commerce platform-backed finance company. Based on shared transaction data monitored sales accounts, a tripartite loan contract is proposed coordinate three parties’ actions in this supply chain financing problem. We prove that the aligns decentralized decisio...

The main elements of electricity price can be divided into three components. These are, wholesale price of energy, price of network services and taxes, each composing approximately third of the final price. It seems that wholesale price is determined quite efficiently, while the price of network services have not been under much interest. However, total welfare can be disturbed significantly, i...

It is common that when a stock out occurs at a retailer the customer may go to another retailer. This phenomenon is often referred to as the customer market search. This paper analyzes the one manufacturer two retailer supply chain while considering the customer market search behavior. Game theoretic models are built to investigate the implications of this phenomenon in scenarios where wholesal...

Supply chains are often in an environment where the demand is affected by the retailer’s sales effort and the supplier has no accurate information about the retailer’s cost. In this situation, the retailer’s action of distorting his cost information could damage the efficiency of the supply chain. In order to reduce the resulted impairment, the problem of how to coordinate the retailer’s action...