Non-cooperative decision-making problems in a decentralized supply chain can be characterized and studied using a stochastic game model. In an earlier paper, the authors developed a methodology that uses machine learning for finding (near) optimal policies for non-zero sum stochastic games, and applied their methodology on an N-retailer and W-warehouse inventory-planning problem. The focus of t...

When selling electronic products, manufacturers and retailers often o er rebates to stimulate sales. Due to certain adverse e ects, however, some manufacturers and retailers are contemplating the elimination of their rebate programs. This paper sheds light on the debate about the value of rebate programs by presenting a model for evaluating the conditions under which a rm should o er rebates in...

We consider a two-stage supply chain comprising two retailers and a single supplier. Each retailer receives a signal of the consumer demand, and bids for the capacity of the supplier. The supplier sells his capacity as a bundle, and announces the winner as well as the auction price. Both retailers can get additional units in a procurement market when the auction closes, and then engage in a Cou...

Cooperative advertising is an agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer to share advertising cost at the local level. Previous studies have not investigated cooperative advertising for complementary products and their main focus was only on one good. In this paper, we study a two-echelon supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer with two complementary goods. The demand ...

The ordering model between single supplier and multi-retailers under the circumstance of non-cooperation supply chain is discussed in this paper, an improved linear price discount strategy is also provided. This strategy considers two situations of incremental discount and decremental discount at the same time. Moreover, Stackelberg game model of both parties’ order on supply and demand is give...

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

Speed economy, proposed by Japanese scholars Masaki Tamura, refers to get the cost savings flow by accelerating the transaction process [1], which brings the a large market space to the cargo/express delivery industry [2]. Due to the rapidly growth of China air cargo/express market and the ongoing increasingly opening up of the sky, international cargo/express giants have set up their hubs in C...

An integrated equilibrium model for tactical decisions in network design is developed. We consider a decentralized supply chain network operating in markets under uncertain demands when there is a rival decentralized chain. The primary assumption is that two chains provide partial substitutable products to the markets, and markets’ demands are affected by tactical decisions such as price, servi...