BACKGROUND While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources and continuous service provision are urgently needed. To gather solid evidence, we initiated a comprehensive intervention project in Qianjiang Di...

This paper studies market schemes in which auctions are used to coordinate the buyer and competing suppliers in a procurement setting. While auction is typically considered a price-determination mechanism, it could also serve as a coordination mechanism. Possible auction and market mechanisms and their expected payoffs are analyzed in a two-supplier, one-buyer system. The auction mechanism coul...

The present study aims to provide a model for financing buyer-supplier in Mehrvarzan healthcare Company. The statistical population of the study includes 300 employees of the company. According to Morgan table, 168 people are selected as the statistical sample. Available non-random sampling method has been used. For collecting the required information, the standard buyer-supplier financing ques...

While sharing the innovation between a buyer and a supplier can increase the efficiency and total profit of the supply chain, many suppliers are reluctant to do so. Sharing innovations leaves the supplier in a vulnerable position if the buyer exploits the information (e.g. by re-sharing the supplier’s innovation with competing suppliers). In this paper, we examine conditions under which a colla...

We study a manufacturer that faces a supplier privileged with private information about supply disruptions. We investigate how risk-management strategies of the manufacturer change, and examine whether risk-management tools are more, or less, valuable, in the presence of such asymmetric information. We model a supply chain with one manufacturer and one supplier, in which the supplier’s reliabil...

The allocation of inventory ownership affects the inventory availability in a supply chain, which in turn determines the supply chain performance. In this paper, we consider a supplier-retailer supply chain in which the supplier starts production well in advance of the selling season, and the retailer is offered two ordering opportunities at different points in time. An early order is allowed b...

Web-enabled applications for business-to-business (B2B) procurement are not only expected to reduce the cost of purchasing process but also to alter the activities of purchasing, transform the purchasing process from an operational into a strategic activity, and provide opportunities for improving market coordination by reducing asset specificity and by making additional partners available. Fro...

The past years have seen growing investments in the area of product lifecycle management (PLM) by the automotive sector. Due to its complex development cycle, the automotive OEM has begun to adopt the supplier integration into its product development process. To respond to this new trend, the PLM system needs to evolve to support the collaboration and partnership management between the automoti...

This study aims to determine the value of vendor-managed inventory (VMI) over independent decision making with information sharing (IS) under non-stationary stochastic demand with service-level constraints. For this purpose, we utilize mixed-integer linear programming formulations to quantify the benefits that can be accrued by a supplier, multiple retailers and the system as a whole by switchi...