While previous studies did not consider that buyback contracts in collusive research of supply chains and the contract particularly strengthens collusion between retailers chain, we address a new question: What is effect different retailer patterns information sharing mechanisms on benefits each member with contracts? To answer this question, develop four two-echelon chain models. The model con...

Abstract: Based on two substitute products, we study the inventory and contract coordination strategy of a three-echelon supply chain, which consists of two suppliers, a manufacturer and a retailer, under supply disruption and stochastic demand. We investigate the channel gross profit model of the centralized supply chain and obtain a unique optimal order quantity. Under a decentralized decisio...

The successful commercialization of any new product depends to a degree on the ability of a firm to match its supply to market demand. In an emerging industry where products have little similarity with the products in existing industries, it is very hard to predict demand patterns. In this paper, we will develop a general mathematical model for providing decision support for the design of suppl...

The supply chain coordinating role of revenue-sharing has, to date, been examined only in static models. With downstream competition, the central conclusion in these models is negative: revenue-sharing cannot, except in degenerate form, achieve coordination. Incorporating dynamics, by allowing inventory carryover in discrete time, this paper establishes a foundation for revenue-sharing contract...

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation focuses on the life-cycle environmental performance of products. EPR has significant implications for management theory and practice. However, there is very little operations management research that examines the influence of EPR policy parameters on product design, the interactions among these parameters, and strategic managerial responses to ...

After entering into supply contracts, ...rms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, ...rms that obtain market demand information after signing supply contracts may bene...t by renegotiating the contracts to allow buyers facing poor market conditions to purchase less than their contractual commitment and allowing buyers facing favorable conditions to purchase more. Co...

In the supply-chain literature, an increasing body of work studies how suppliers can use incentive schemes such as quantity discounts to influence buyers’ ordering behaviour, thus reducing the supplier’s (and the total supply chain’s) costs. Various functional forms for such incentive schemes have been proposed, but a critical assumption always made is that the supplier has full information abo...

The paper analyses non-cooperative behaviour in a two-echelon decentralized supply chain, composed of one supplier and n retailers. For sufficient supply from the supplier, we build the approximate decision model of their base stock level, in which the suppliers reactions are not considered, and its non-cooperative behaviour is obtained. For insufficient supply from the supplier, much more comp...