We develop a price competition model for a new supply chain that competes in a market comprised of some rival supply chains. The new supply chain has one risk-neutral manufacturer and one risk-averse retailer in which the manufacturer is a leader and retailer is a follower. The manufacturer pays a fraction of the risk cost (caused by demand uncertainty) to the retailer. We apply this competitiv...

This article investigates the pricing of options when the demand curve is downward sloping. Our speciÞc application arises in a supply chain setting, where a manufacturer offers the retailer the right to reorder items at a Þxed price and/or the right to return unsold goods for a predetermined salvage value. We show that the introduction of option contracts causes the wholesale price to increase...

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

In the past decade, we have seen significant increase in the level of outsourcing in many industries. This increase in the level of outsourcing increases the importance of implementing effective contracts in supply chains. In this thesis, we study several issues in supply chain contracts. In the first part of the thesis, we study the impact of effort in a supply chain with multiple retailers. T...

Numerous algorithms and tools have been deployed in supply chain modeling and problem solving. These are based on stochastic models, mathematical programming models, heuristic techniques, and simulation. Since different decision problems in supply chains entail different approaches to be used for modeling and problem solving, there is a need for a unified approach to modeling supply chains so t...

Markets increasing competition coupled with a growing concern with the environment have created a new way of thinking when designing and planning supply chains. The aim of increasing supply chains’ sustainability has been emerging. One step towards the achievement of such aim is the integration of reverse logistics into the traditional supply chains. This has created the closed-loop supply chai...

" Digitally connected enterprises " refers to e-business, global supply chains, and other new business designs of Knowledge Economy; all of which require open and scalable information supply chains across independent enterprises. Connecting proprietarily designed and controlled enterprise databases in these information supply chains is a critical success factor for them. Previous connection des...

Purpose This paper aims to examine lean thinking in medical commodities supply chains by considering its applications and success factors. It determines the drivers wastes of commodity chain, existing tools practices together with their application chain processes. The also examined challenges factors for effective chains. Design/methodology/approach study used qualitative approaches, in-depth ...

A trend in up-to-date developments in supply chain management (SCM) is to make supply chains more agile, flexible, and responsive. In supply chains, different structures (functional, organizational, informational, financial etc.) are (re)formed. These structures interrelate with each other and change in dynamics. The paper introduces a new conceptual framework for multi-structural planning and ...

one of the most fundamental components of healthcare system on each country is blood supply chain management. this chain is comprised of two significant components including collecting donor’ bloods and supplying blood’s products. the main purpose of this paper is to concentrate on supplying blood products and present a novel constrained bi-objective mathematical model for a two-echelon blood s...