The efficient management of a distribution system requires coordination between transportation planning and inventory control. Small and frequent shipments can reduce inventory levels while maintaining high customer service levels, but they increase unit transportation costs due to inappropriate utilization of the vehicles and more handling costs. On the other hand shipment consolidation polici...

Received: 10 September 2013 Abstract Accepted: 5 November 2013 Transport plays a key role in inventory management since it affects logistic costs as well as environmental performance of the supply chain. Expected value and variability of supply lead time depend on the transportation means adopted, and influence the optimal values of order quantity, reorder level, and safety stock to be adopted....

This paper studies the competitive and cooperative selection of inventory policies in a two-echelon supply chain with one supplier and N retailers. Stochastic demand is monitored continuously. Retailers incur inventory holding and backorder penalty costs. The supplier incurs holding costs for its inventory and backorder penalty costs for backorders at the retailers. The latter cost reflects the...

We consider ex post demand information sharing and leakage in a two-echelon supply chain consisting of one supplier two retailers competing quantities. The incumbent retailer has an advantage to acquire about the market at cost. If he invests acquisition, privately acquires signal demand. examine incumbent’s incentive acquisition sharing, upstream supplier’s strategy. confirm that decisions dep...

This research presents three profit sharing models of a key item in a two-echelon supply chain production. The first model maximizes the supplier’s profit while allowing the producer to take his own optimal inspection sampling policy. The second model is developed exclusively to the supplier’s advantage. The last model adopts a collaborative strategy that permits both parties to negotiate an in...

We study a two-echelon supply chain made up of a supplier and a manufacturer, both of which can reduce their component/product carbon emissions. With the vertical technology spillovers, we explore the optimal decisions of centralized and decentralized supply chains with price dependent demand and propose coordination strategy for the decentralized supply chain. Considering the cost contraction ...

With information revolution, increased globalization and competition, supply chain has become longer and more complicated than ever before. These developments bring supply chain management to the forefront of the management’s attention. Inventories are very important in a supply chain. The total investment in inventories is enormous, and the management of inventory is crucial to avoid shortages...

Inventory allocation decisions in a distribution system concern issues such as how much and where stock should be assigned to orders in a supply chain. When the inventory level of an inventory point is lower than the total number of items ordered by lower echelons in the chain, the decision of how many items to allocate to each “competing” order must take into consideration the trade-off betwee...

The article studies, with the level constraints in short supply, the inventory decision model of the minimum total annual cost of the supply chain which, composed of a single supplier and multiple buyers, involving supplier’s lead time as a decision variable, replacing the cost of shortages with the level in short supply, and has solved the difficult problem in the practice.