Background:Motivated by concern over lack of access to nutritious food in low-income neighborhoods, healthy food financing initiatives have encouraged the introduction of new supermarkets. Extensive research on the association between the food retail environment and nutrition outcomes has shown mixed results. There has been less research specifically on food security outcomes. Objective: We ass...

In 2002, Travelocity lost revenue and market share to competition as the business environment changed. Travelocity and Sabre collaborated to develop the enterprise network model (ENM). The ENM combines discrete choice customer modeling with simulation and large-scale optimization to improve Travelocity’s management supplier agreements, customer marketing, and product pricing. The ENM has helped...

This work considers cooperative advertising in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain. While the manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader, the retailer is the follower. Using Sethi model it models the dynamic effect of the manufacturer and retailer’s advertising efforts on sale. It uses optimal control technique and stochastic differential game theory to obtain the players’ advertising strategies a...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper investigates and develops an electricity supply chain with generator retailer. The invests in renewable energy sells the to retailer; retailer then consumers according service quality. Three models are considered: vertical Nash game, electricity-generator Stackelberg model, electricity-retailer model. Finally, optimal solutions under different power...

Showrooming is an increasingly popular practic that threatens retailers' performance. This paper adopts the push-pull-mooring framework to understand shopper decision purchase online from a different retailer (competitive showrooming) rather than same visited gather information (loyal showrooming). Going beyond customer motivation get best value, we focus on retailer-situational variables (stor...

In this paper, we study the distribution network design problem integrating transportation and infinite horizon multiechelon inventory cost function. We consider the trade-off between inventory cost, direct shipment cost, and facility location cost in such a system. The problem is to determine how many warehouses to set up, where to locate them, how to serve the retailers using these warehouses...

We study a supply chain comprised of a retailer who sources a product from a manufacturer. The retailer has superior information about the market demand, and the manufacturer must build the capacity and set the wholesale price prior to observing demand realization. We explore the level of information the retailer can share with the manufacturer by means of cheap talk. We first analyze a case in...

the present study was focused on supply chain analysis of fresh guava in order to evaluate existing marketing supply chains (sc1: producer - consumer, sc2: producer - retailer - consumer, sc3: producer - commission agent - retailer - consumer, sc4: producer - commission agent - wholesaler - retailer - consumer) for two variety (allahabad safeda and apple guava) of guava. the gross marketing pri...