Abstract: To understand the dynamics of the manufacturer’s effort to reduce pollution in a supply chain consisting of manufacturer, retailer, and consumers, we analyze four cases according to consumer awareness of the pollution’s harmful effect, i.e., environmentally aware versus ignorant, and supply chain coordination, i.e., competitive versus cooperative. Applying differential games, we deriv...

This article investigates the pricing of options when the demand curve is downward sloping. Our speciÞc application arises in a supply chain setting, where a manufacturer offers the retailer the right to reorder items at a Þxed price and/or the right to return unsold goods for a predetermined salvage value. We show that the introduction of option contracts causes the wholesale price to increase...

This paper considers a dual-channel supply chain consisting of manufacturer and capital-constrained retailer, where the retailer makes certain sales efforts may hitch ride on retailer’s efforts. Deferred payment bank loan financing models under Retailer- Manufacturer-Stackelberg settings are established, respectively. The equilibrium price effort strategies both sides two power structures modes...

We consider a two echelon supply chain where a single retailer holds an inventory of finished goods to satisfy an i.i.d. customer demand, and a single manufacturer produces the retailer’s replenishment orders on a make-to-order basis. The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of the retailer’s replenishment policy (order variance amplification/dampening) on supply chain performance. ...

Abstract New technology such as 3D printing, robotic manufacturing, and the Internet of things can shorten production time mass customization (MC) products, enhance self-design fun consumers, improve channel integration connectivity. In this study, we examine impact MC waiting from purchase products on supply chain integration. We consider a consisting one manufacturer, retailer, customizer. Th...

Data mining techniques have been used widely in the area of customer relationship management (CRM). In this study, we have applied data mining techniques to address a problem in business-to-business (B2B) setting. In a manufacturer-retailer-consumer chain, a manufacturer should improve its relationship with retailers to continue its business. Segmentation is a useful tool for identifying groups...

This paper studies pricing decisions and service decisions of a product in a dual-channel (i.e., the traditional retail channel and direct online channel) supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. We consider two types of channel pricing decisions (i.e., consistent pricing and inconsistent pricing) in the scenario which the manufacturer holds more bargaining power than the r...

Given increased global competition and consumers’ increasing price sensitivity, apparel retailers such as J. C. Penney have begun to focus on quick response and cycle time reduction as part of their overall business strategy. Extensive use of interorganizational linkages with major suppliers has become a key component in designing more effective, responsive strategies to meet changing corporate...

While advance booking programs have been shown to be e¤ective for …rms to manage uncertain demand, the e¤ectiveness of such programs is unclear when supply, demand, and price risks are present in a supply chain. Motivated by an advance booking program for managing these three types of risks in a ‡u vaccine supply chain, we present a two-stage Stackelberg game model to examine the dynamic intera...

This paper considers a manufacturer selling to a newsvendor retailer that possesses superior demand-forecast information. We show that the manufacturer’s expected profit is convex in the retailer’s forecasting accuracy: The manufacturer benefits from selling to a better-forecasting retailer if and only if the retailer is already a good forecaster. If the retailer has poor forecasting capabiliti...