The growth and expansion of economic concepts in the power system is increasing in last years. Energy economists have considered the optimal decision-making of electricity market retailers in recent years. In this paper, a demand response program based model is pro-posed in order to make the optimal decision of the retailer in the electricity market, taking into account the different conditions...

Advanced delivery and cross-channel return are new phenomena in Omni-channel marketing. This paper studies a dual-channel supply chain system composed of one online retailer, physical store, their ordinary manufacturer. It intends to explore the pricing decisions retailers under four scenarios concerning question whether deliver goods advance use return. We analyze impact operation costs stores...

This paper discusses the economic order quantity ( EOQ ) under partial trade credit. In 1985, Goyal assumed that: (i) The unit selling price and the unit purchasing price were equal. (ii) The supplier would offer the retailer full trade credit under condition of delay payments. The main purpose of this paper wants to modify Goyal’s model to presume that the unit selling price and the unit purch...

We study the effects of credit risk in a supply chain where one retailer deals with competing risky suppliers who may default during their production lead-times. The suppliers, who compete for business with the retailer by establishing wholesale prices, are leaders in a Stackelberg game with the retailer. The retailer, facing uncertain future demand, chooses order quantities while weighing the ...

This research considers a supply chain under the following conditions: (i) two heterogeneous suppliers are in competition, (ii) supply capacity is random and pricing is endogenous, (iii) consumer demand, with and without an intermediate retailer, is price dependent. Specifically, we examine how uncertainty in supply capacity affects optimal ordering and pricing decisions, supplier and retailer ...

Supply chain coordination has received substantial attention in the operations literature in recent years. Coordination issues in supply chains arise due to several factors, an important one being the difference in the cost impact of inventory and replenishment decisions on the manufacturer and retailer. In this paper, we address this asymmetry in cost impact that can lead to sub-optimal channe...