A number of studies discussed the topic of benefits of retailers-manufacturers cooperation and coopetition. However, there are only few publications focused on the benefits of cooperation and coopetition between retailers and their suppliers of durable consumer goods; especially in the context of business model of cooperating partners. This paper aims to provide a clustering approach to segment...

Transshipment problem is one of the basic operational research problems. In this paper, our first work is to develop a biologically inspired mathematical model for a dynamical system, which is first used to solve minimum cost flow problem. It has lower computational complexity than Physarum Solver. Second, we apply the proposed model to solve the traditional transshipment problem. Compared with...

In this paper, we examine retailers’ dynamic pricing behavior in a competitive environment, using scanner data on the refrigerated orange juice category. We examine two factors that may result in lower retail prices compared to static optimum prices at categorylevel profit maximization: (i) retailers’ use of a loss leader strategy for national brands to attract more consumers, and (ii) retailer...

In this paper, we extend the models in the literature [Lee, H.L., So, K.C., Tang, C., 2000. The value of information sharing in a two-level supply chain. Management Science 46 (5), 626–643; Raghunathan, S., Yeh, A.B., 2001. Beyond EDI: impact of continuous replenishment program (CRP) between a manufacturer and its retailers. Information Systems Research 12 (4), 406–419] to analyze the benefits ...

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 ...

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...

In Indonesia, transshipment is a logistical method to maintain the fish’s quality, but in reality this activity allows IUU fishing. Through Regulation of Minister Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Number 57/PERMEN-KP/2014, activities were banned because losses arising from fishing partially facilitated by transshipment; fish caught are not reported recorded. Transshipment covers origin how transhi...

I this paper we examine the relationship between inventory levels and one-year-ahead earnings of retailers using publicly available financial data. We use benchmarking metrics obtained from operations management literature to demonstrate an inverted-U relationship between abnormal inventory growth and one-year-ahead earnings per share for retailers. We also find that equity analysts do not full...

Clusters of business locations, which considerably impact daily activities, have been prominent phenomena. Yet the question of how and why firms cluster in certain areas has not been sufficiently studied. This paper investigates the emergence of clusters of business locations on a supply chain network comprised of suppliers, retailers, and, consumers. Krugman (1996) argued that urban concentrat...