This article analyzes a supply chain management system (SCM), with two echelons. We consider a perishable inventory with Poisson demand, exponential life time and positive lead time at distribution center (DC) and retailer. Partial backlogging at retailer node is assumed with limited quantity. (s, S) policy at retailer and (M-1, M) policy at DC are assumed to get a tractable analytic solution. ...

Supply chain coordination has received substantial attention in the operations literature in recent years. Coordination issues in supply chains arise due to several factors, an important one being the difference in the cost impact of inventory and replenishment decisions on the manufacturer and retailer. In this paper, we address this asymmetry in cost impact that can lead to sub-optimal channe...

Abstract In this paper we consider a system consisting of a retailer, a supplier with a single processing unit, and a repair center. We assume that the retailer faces a Poisson demand, his ordering cost is zero or negligible, and for his inventory control he applies one-for-one ordering policy, that is, as soon as a demand arrives he orders one unit to the supplier. We also assume that when a d...

In this paper we investigate the interplay between operations and financial decisions within the context of a two-echelon supply chain. A retailer purchases a single product from a supplier and afterwards sells it in the retail market to a random demand. The retailer, however, is budget-constrained and is therefore limited in the number of units that he may purchase from the supplier. We invest...

T free-riding problem occurs if the presales activities needed to sell a product can be conducted separately from the actual sale of the product. Intuitively, free riding should hurt the retailer that provides that service, but the author shows analytically that free riding benefits not only the free-riding retailer, but also the retailer that provides the service when customers are heterogeneo...

This paper examines the extended two-echelon newsboy problem for a manufacturer and retailer in a supply chain with asymmetric market information. In this scenario, the retailer has better knowledge of the market s demand, and the manufacturer perceives the same demand. This applied model presents how the manufacturer can take advantage of the retailer s market information and improve the effic...

In this paper we investigate the interplay between operational and financial decisions within the context of a two-echelon supply chain. A retailer purchases a single product from a supplier and afterwards sells it in the retail market to a random demand. The retailer, however, is budgetconstrained and is therefore limited in the number of units that he may purchase from the supplier. We study ...

This paper studies a decentralized supply chain in which a manufacturer sells a common generic product through two traditional and online retailers under free riding market. We assume that the traditional retailer provides the value added services but the online retailer does not. Factors such as retail prices, local advertising of the retailers, global advertising of the manufacturer and servi...

In this paper we consider a system consisting of a supplier with a single processing unit, a repair center, and a retailer with Poisson demand. We assume that the retailer applies one-for-one ordering policy with backorders for his inventory control. The retailer’s orders form a queue in the supplier processing unit. We also assume that a certain fraction of the products produced by the supplie...