The U.S. apparel industry has been in a transition over the last 20 years: significant consolidation in retail, majority of apparel manufacturing operations moving overseas, and more recently, increasing use of electronic commerce in retail and wholesale trade. This paper aims to review the current state of operations and recent trends across the apparel supply chain in the U.S. We use industry...

This paper presents a model for designing the pricing policies for the supply chain whose channel is integrated with retail and e-tail. In order to incentive the retailer, the manufacture in the supply chain adopts return policy promising that any unsold product can be returned to the manufacture for a partial refund in the end of the selling season. How can the manufacture coordinate the prici...

vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. previous research on this area mainly included single objective optimization models where the objective is to minimize the total supply chain costs or to maximize the total supply chain benefits. this paper presents a bi-objective mathematical mod...

The paper considers a two-echelon supply chain where a supplier determines his production quantity and a retailer chooses her order size and retail price for each period in an infinite horizon. Under a price-discount sharing (PDS) scheme, the supplier’s wholesale price linearly depends on the retail price. We develop a stochastic game in which these two supply chain members maximize their disco...

Nowadays, companies are suffering changes in the way they deal with their inventories and their whole supply chain management. New technologies are emerging to help them adapt to the changes and keep a competitive status, but the adoption of such technologies is not always easy. Even though a lot of research has been done for RFID, there are still some areas that are being left aside, like the ...

The present study offers a methodology to investigate the potential impacts of integrating RFID technology in one specific retail supply chain. Based on empirical data gathered from four tightly interrelated firms from three layers of a supply chain, several scenarios integrating RFID technology have been tested and evaluated. In the context of warehousing activities, the results indicate that ...