This paper investigates the influence of channel structures and channel coordination on the supplier, the retailer, and the entire supply chain n the context of two single-channel and two dual-channel supply chains. We extensively study two Pareto zone concepts: channel-adding Pareto one and contract-implementing Pareto zone. In the channel-adding Pareto zone, both the supplier and the retailer...

In this paper,a coordination model has been investigated for a two-level supply chain (SC) consisting of one retailer and one supplier under periodic review inventory system. The review period and the retailer’s safety factorare assumed to be decision variables. The retailer faces stochastic demand following a normal distribution with known mean and variance. Moreover, it is assumed that unmet ...

We consider a network of two nodes separated by a noisy channel with two sided state information, in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source and its reconstruction. In the case of non-causal encoding and decoding, we propose a joint source-channel coding scheme and develop inner and outer bounds for the strong coordination region. While the inner and outer boun...

We consider a problem of optimally scheduling users in cell boundaries, where the users suffer from the interference from neighboring base stations (BSs). We propose new scheduling schemes that mitigate inter-cell interference through a coordination between two BSs to utilize some of the best known achievable schemes for the interference channel (IC) in information theory. In the proposed sched...

In this paper, the coordination of pricing and periodic review inventory decisions in a supplier-retailer supply chain (SC) is proposed. In the investigated SC, the retailer faces a stochastic price dependent demand and determines the review period, order-up-to-level, and retail price. On the other hand, the supplier decides on the replenishment multiplier. Firstly, the decentralized and centra...

We investigate the role of options (contingent claims) in a buyer-supplier system. Specifically using a two-period model with correlated demand, we illustrate how options provide flexibility to a buyer to respond to market changes in the second period. We also study the implications of such arrangements between a buyer and a supplier for coordination of the channel. We show that, in general, ch...