This paper proposes a new motivation for information sharing in a decentralized channel consisting of a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer provides a common product to the retailers at the same wholesale price. Both retailers add their own values to the product and distribute it to consumers. Factors such as retail prices, values added to the product, and local ad...

multi-echelon inventory systems are one of the most important and attractive areas in modelling supply chain management so that several researches and studies have been done about. in this paper, the total cost function of a two-echelon inventory system with central warehouse and many identical retailers controlled by continuous review inventory policy is estimated. we have assumed the demand i...

T author considers a model of a decentralized distribution system consisting of n retailers selling an identical product. Retailers face a stochastic demand and must order their initial inventory before this demand is realized. After demand realization, retailers decide how much of their unsold inventory or unsatisfied demand they want to share with other retailers. This is followed by a transs...

I this paper, we investigate the equilibrium behavior of decentralized supply chains with competing retailers under demand uncertainty. We also design contractual arrangements between the parties that allow the decentralized chain to perform as well as a centralized one. We address these questions in the context of two-echelon supply chains with a single supplier servicing a network of (competi...

T This paper analyzes different pricing strategies in a two-echelon supply chain including one supplier and two retailers. The supplier and the retailers face random yield and random demand, respectively. Moreover, coordination or non-coordination of retailers in receiving the discount is investigated. Game theory is used to model and analyze the problems. The supplier as a leader of Stackelbe...

Producers frequently provide retailers with financial incentives to secure distribution of their products. These payments often take the form of vendor allowances: lumpsum transfers to retailers that do not directly depend on quantity sold. I study the equilibrium effects of the use of vendor allowances when retailers’ product selections are endogenous. I find that these payments are important ...

More retailers are now incorporating the Internet as a channel to their existing operations and becoming multichannel retailers. However, not all multichannel retailers are successful in their attempts and even some otherwise successful traditional retailers have failed to capitalize on the Internet as a retail channel. This paper explores the various multichannel strategies of some American pr...

A panoply of retailer practices, such as advertising loss leaders or marketing house brands, take advantage of third party trademarks to increase the retailer’s profit. In a sense, trademark owners create spillover benefits for these retailers (I call these benefits “brand spillovers”). This Article examines the phenomenon and legal treatment of brand spillovers. In general, retailers have not ...

Environmental Supply Chain Management (ESCM) has contributed to reducing environmental impacts through various approaches such as by increasing cooperation with suppliers and improving transportation efficiency. However, food scares caused by Bovine Spongiform Encephalophy (BSE) outbreaks that occurred in 1986 in beef (BSE Inquiry, 2003) and the uncertainty surrounding Genetically Modified Orga...

We study the performance of a stylized supply chain where multiple retailers and a single producer compete in a Cournot-Stackelberg game. At time t = 0 the retailers order a single product from the producer and upon delivery at time T > 0, they sell it in the retail market at a stochastic clearance price. We assume the retailers’ profits depend in part on the realized path of some tradeable sto...