We model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. T he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. The retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

While there has been strong managerial and academic interest in price promotions, much of the focus has been on the impact of such promotions on category sales, brand sales and brand choice. In contrast, little is known about the long-run impact of price promotions on manufacturer and retailer revenues and margins, although both marketing researchers and practitioners consider this a priority a...

We study lead time options in a manufacturer and a retailer supply chain where the retailer uses the (R, Q) inventory policy: the retailer places an order to the manufacturer who initially promises to deliver the order a lead time later. The manufacturer also promises to expedite or postpone the delivery of the order by a certain amount of time if the retailer makes such a request. Consequently...

I n recent years, an increasing number of brick-and-mortar retailers have entered into the new brick-and-click era. Within this context, when a manufacturer presents a new product offering to a retailer, the ultimate decision is often made by the retailer regarding (1) whether to carry the new product, and (2) the channel outlet the product will be carried in (i.e., in-store only, online-exclus...

We consider a duopoly market in which two retailers with different reputation compete in prices and one of the retailers is considering selling through a new channel. Consumers are reputation sensitive and averse to the new channel. In addition, the reputation sensitivity and new channel aversion are heterogeneous across consumers. In such a setting, we find that, there must be some cost reduct...

In this paper we consider a retailer's product line selection and pricing problem. We use a consumer choice model in which individuals have stochastic utility for each product and act to maximize their consumer surplus. We consider three basic problems: (1) A retailer who has a current product line with xed prices and who is considering the addition of a new model to the product line. The retai...

This paper presents the potential of building a local electricity market (LEM) to boost deployment energy communities, centred around active customers with distributed resources (DERs). To conduct comprehensive and detailed study on different cases reduced computational burdens, this adopts simplified modelling approach where network model simulations are performed in cascaded, decoupled fashio...

In this article, manufacturer-retailer supply chain coordination (SCC) has been developed under periodic review inventory system. In the studied model, the retailer as downstream member uses periodic review inventory policy and decides about review period (T) and order-up-to-level (R). Also, the manufacturer as upstream member faces EPQ system and determines the number of shipments from manufac...

D price promotions generate additional revenue and for whom? Which brand, category, and market conditions influence promotional benefits and their allocation across manufacturers and retailers? To answer these questions, we conduct a large-scale econometric investigation of the effects of price promotions on manufacturer revenues, retailer revenues, and total profits (margins). A first major fi...