Comparison of Dual-Channel Supply Chain Structures: E-Commerce Platform as Different Roles

The Mode of Different Price in Dual-Channel Supply Chain

1 Entrepreneurship Academy, Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College No.2 of Xueyuan Rd., Yiwu, Zhejiang province, zip code: 322000 2 School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, No.111 of Northbound Section 1, Second Ring Rd., Chengdu, Sichuan province, zip code: 610031 3 Sichuan Vocational and Technical College of Communications No.111 of Northbound Section 1, Second Rin...

Energizing your Supply Chain for e-Commerce

The concepts of supply chain design and management has come to the fore, due to the everincreasing complexity of the systems driving buyer supplier relations in both industrial and consumer based markets. The unprecedented levels of supply chain management complexity are partly attributed to the Internet, through its more recent business acceptance and commercial use. This article is about new ...

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Impact of Transportation System on Total Cost in a Two-Echelon Dual Channel Supply Chain

The advent of e-commerce has prompted many manufacturers to redesign their traditionalchannel structure by engaging in direct sales. In this paper, we present a dual channel inventory modelbased on queuing theory in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain, consisting of a traditional retailchannel and a direct channel which stocks are kept in both upper and lower echelon. The systemreceives stocha...

The Strategic Importance of E-Commerce in Modern Supply Chain

Considering some aspects of the motor industry as an example, this paper outlines strategic opportunities for e-commerce-enabled supply chains and, hence, greatly improved responses to customers. The authors demonstrate that there will be resulting strategic advantage for firms that become enabled to take a further step of making changes to their much wider manufacturing process philosophies. T...