in a complex and volatile environment of the supply chain, any attempt to reduce the risks may increase or decrease other risks; thus, achieving an overall picture of the risks of supply chain and relationships between them are necessary and will lead to more effective and comprehensive strategy to response to risks. the purpose of this paper is identifying and extracting the potential risks of...

Building evolution model of supply chain networks could be helpful to understand its development law. However, specific characteristics and attributes of real supply chains are often neglected in existing evolution models. This work proposes a new evolution model of supply chain with manufactures as the core, based on external market demand and internal competition-cooperation. The evolution mo...

With the increasingly fierce market competition, China has more sound market economy system. Competition in the market price on the important position of the company is also increasing. It increases its profit source which can provide third-party logistics services business. Third-party logistics enterprises should put the customer requirements on an important position and meet the requirements...

Decision makers in a supply chain confront two main sources of uncertainty in market environment including uncertainty about customers purchasing behaviors and rival chains strategies. Focusing on competition between two supply chains, it is considered that each customer as an independent player selects products of these chains based on randomutilitymodel. Similar to quantal response equilibriu...

With the development of global agricultural industry, competition among product supply chain suppliers has become increasingly fierce. In this context, it is great significance to explore selection suppliers. Based on analysis characteristics and factors affecting suppliers, paper proposes a supplier framework for chain, which includes four stages: identification criteria, evaluation performanc...

Supply quality management is becoming an important part of a manufacturer‟s work with suppliers, and has recently received significant attention from researchers. This paper focuses on a supply chain system that consists of a supplier and two competing manufacturers, examines quality strategies in different cooperative mechanisms and investigates the effects of different cooperative mechanisms ...

We develop a game theory model for supply chain network competition in timesensitive markets in which consumers respond to the average delivery time associated with the various firms’ products. The firms’ behavior is captured, along with the supply chain network topologies, with the governing equilibrium concept being that of Nash equilibrium. We derive the variational inequality formulation of...

Abstract This study is designed to solve supply chain inefficiencies caused by some members' financial problems, such as capital shortages and financing restrictions in a stochastic environment. To this end, we have established finance framework designing two novel coordinating contracts based on trade credit for different problem settings. These are modeled the form of multi-leader Stackelberg...

In this paper, we model the supply chain network design problem with oligopolistic firms who are involved in the competitive production, storage, and distribution of a homogeneous product to multiple demand markets. The profit-maximizing firms select both the capacities associated with the various supply chain network activities as well as the product quantities. We formulate the governing Nash...

Negotiating with suppliers and with customers is a key part of supply chain management. However, with recent technological advances, the mechanisms available to carry out such activities have become increasingly sophisticated, and the environment in which these activities take place has become highly dynamic. As a consequence, the overall planning of these complex trades, and the coordination o...