Abstract: The implementation of government legislation, social responsibility, environmental concerns regarding the reduction of waste, hazardous material and other consumer residuals have made the competition between the firms stricter than ever and nowadays firms that want to survive need a more productive and innovative approach toward the financial aspects of their businesses.his pape...

Nowadays, coordination between members in a supply chain has become very important and beneficial to channel members. Through cooperative advertising, manufacturers and retailers can jointly participate in promotional programs. This action not only reduces the cost of advertising, but also is important to create a link with local retailers in order to increase immediate sales at the retail leve...

Supply chain management can be greatly improved using autonomous agents. The Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) competition is a forum for developing such agents. This paper introduces StormFront, a moderately successful agent that attempts to produce a high volume of products at a low profit margin, capturing the majority of customer demand. The underlying components a...

This paper proposes a model for dynamic pricing that combines knowledge of production capacity and existing commitments, reasoning about uncertainty and learning of market conditions in an attempt to optimise expected profits. In particular, the changing market conditions are represented as a set of probabilities over the success rate of product prices. The dynamic pricing model is integrated i...

In this paper, we study a buyback contract model of the competitive newsvendor problem between a single supplier and multiple retailers under simultaneous price and safety stock competition. A price completion factor and a spill rate translate the price and safety stock competition, respectively. Our model is an extension of the problem analyzed in Zhao and Atkins (2) by the adoption of a buyba...

Supply chains are the basis of the world economy. With a computer simulation of a supply chain management scenario, the Trading Agents Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) promotes research in this field to try and automate the process. By letting computer agents optimize the manufacturing process, consumer goods become cheaper. Presented is an analysis of the 2005 Finals of the Tra...

the need for high-quality medical equipment in the hospital supply chain has more than ever demonstrated the necessity and importance of quality management to be implemented by administrators in line with the iranian health reform plan. in this study, the game theory was used to model the strategies chosen by companies supplying medical equipment to hospitals. considering the process of self-le...

This article by modeling a non-cooperative dynamic game tries to improve profitability and competition. This paper has considered how the manufacturer interacts with multiple competitor distributors. Each distributor also determines the optimal distribution price and inventory replenishment policies to maximize their profits. The issue form a non-cooperative dynamic game. Distributors formulate...

This study aims at formulating and testing a model of store choice dynamics to measure the effects of consumer characteristics on consumer grocery store choice and switching behavior. A dynamic hazard model is estimated to obtain an understanding of the components influencing consumer purchase timing, store choice, and the competitive dynamics of retail competition. The hazard model is combined...