This article studies the design of contracts involving a single retailer and multiple competing manufacturers who supply substitutable products. We consider retail context in which with are negotiated relatively infrequently signed before demand environment is known, prices determined when known. develop Stackelberg model to study retailer's product selection pricing decisions manufacturers' co...

Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology stands to save WalMart $750 million dollars per year. The retail giant has mandated that its top 100 suppliers begin using RFID by 2005. It is believed that other retailers will follow Wal-Mart’s lead. RFID holds the promise for a more efficient supply-chain, however, the industry struggles to comply with the cost and logistics ...

The fast development of RFID and connective technologies is progressively changing the management of business units by introducing new challenges and appealing opportunities. In particular, promoters of connective technologies underline the abilities of these technologies to support decision making and, specifically, to increase supply chain performance. However, despite its huge potential, tec...

The purpose of the paper is to generate an understanding of the prerequisites for sustainable supply chain management. A common tendency in the literature is to see sustainable supply chain management as something that is undertaken by a focal firm at the end of the chain. Even though many scholars point to the need for cooperative approaches, focal firms are still considered to manage supply c...

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

We consider a series of companies in a supply chain, each of which orders from its immediate upstream members. Usually, the retailer’s order do not coincide with the actual retail sales. The bullwhip effect refers to the phenomenon where orders to the supplier tend to have larger variance than sales to the buyer (i.e. demand distortion), and the distortion propagates upstream in an amplified fo...

This paper adopts agent-based simulation to study the horizontal competition among homogenous price-setting retailers in a one-to-many supply chain (a supply chain consists of one supplier and multiple retailers). We model the supplier and retailers as agents, and design their behavioral rules respectively. The results show that although the agents learn individually based on their own experien...

I provide a general analysis of vertical relations that are intermediated either with wholesale prices or with revenue-sharing contracts. Although revenuesharing does not eliminate double markups, it nonetheless tends to lower retail prices. Revenue-sharing is extremely attractive to the firm that is able to set the revenue shares, but often makes the other firm worse off. These results hold ev...

In this research, the optimal pricing decisions for two complementary products in a two-echelon supply chain under two scenarios are studied. The proposed supply chain in each echelon includes one retailer and two manufacturers and the same complementary products are produced. In the first scenario, we assume the unit manufacturing costs of the complementary products in each echelon are the sam...