Sources of Rail Transport Efficiency in Supply Chains

Fuzzy revenue efficiency in sustainable supply chains

The performance assessment of supply chains including sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social is a significant aspect for managers and decision makers. Furthermore, imprecise data are presented in many real world applications. Therefore, the current paper proposes an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the revenue efficiency of sustainable supply...

Sources and consequences of bargaining power in supply chains

Research suggests that collaborative supply chain management (SCM) helps chain members create ‘‘a rising tide that lifts all boats.’’ Yet resource dependence theory suggests that when tides rise, some boats are lifted more than others; members who furnish important resources or resources where control is concentrated have bargaining power. Drawing on Thompson [Thompson, J.D., 1967. Organization...

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Energy Efficiency Contracting in Supply Chains under Asymmetric Bargaining Power

Evidence shows that suppliers refrain from investing in energy efficiency (EE) measures because they fear that a buyer with greater bargaining power will use the EE-related cost reductions to push prices down, in the purchase bargaining process, and thereby further reduce the supplier’s profit margin. Suppliers are also discouraged from EE investment by the uncertainty associated with new techn...

Efficiency of Competing Supply Chains under Price Competition

Consider a multi-channel supply chain (hereafter SC) system, producing and distributing two substitutable products. Within this framework, we study the SC efficiency by comparing several decentralized SC configurations with a centralized one. Our result show that it is often possible to achieve 93.5% or more of the total profit of a centralized SC in a decentralized configuration, which suggest...