W are the drivers of retailer pricing tactics over time? Based on multivariate time-series analysis of two rich data sets, we quantify the relative importance of competitive retailer prices, pricing history, brand demand, wholesale prices, and retailer category-management considerations as drivers of retail prices. Interestingly, competitive retailer prices account for less than 10% of the over...

We study a supply chain setup in which buyer has private end customer demand information that she can share with the supplier. The is relevant to supplier's capacity decision. address question of whether supplier benefits from installing nonlinear reservation contracts rather than wholesale price contracts. contribute literature by providing first internally valid comparison both human decision...

This paper analyzes a decentralized global supply chain under newsvendor setting, where supplier delivers certain quantity of single product to buyer in accordance with the terms mutually agreed upon contract. contract is signed prior delivery and subsequent payment, thus, exposing risk currency exchange rate fluctuations. We propose two types flexibility contracts explore characteristics mitig...

In this paper, we will investigate a buyer's decision making problem in procuring multiple products, each treated as a newsvendor, from two markets. The contract market has a long lead time, a fixed wholesale price and resource constraints. While the spot market has an instant lead time and a highly volatile price. The purchasing decision at the spot market can be made near the beginning of the...

Rapid economic growth and industrialization have brought material abundance convenience, but also social environmental problems such as global warming, climate change, ozone depletion. For this reason, the public governments continued to make efforts reduce carbon oxide emissions worldwide over past few decades. To achieve mission, cap-and-trade regulations been introduced one of most effective...

The study was conducted to investigate the degree and nature of spatial integration among district level monthly wholesale price of rice in Northwestern and greater Mymensingh region of Bangladesh. Market integration was examined by co-integration method-while price fluctuations were estimated by Error Correction Mechanism (ECM). Stationarity of data was checked with the help of Augmented Dicke...

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...

Consignment contracts have been widely employed in many industries. Under such contracts, items are sold at a retailer’s but the supplier retains the full ownership of the inventory until purchased by consumers; the supplier collects payment from the retailer based on actual units sold. We investigate how competition among retailers influences the supply chain decisions and profits under differ...

Oligopoly price discrimination in the retail market prevents a manufacturer from inducing optimal retail margins through any wholesale price. This motivates the manufacturer to impose resale price maintenance. In a model of third-degree price discrimination by rival retailers, a retail price ceiling (or floor) enables the manufacturer to restore the first best. Imposing a fixed retail price is ...