To set inventory service levels, suppliers must understand how changes in inventory service level affect demand. We build on prior research, which uses analytical models and laboratory experiments to study the impact of a supplier’s service level on demand from retailers, by testing this relationship in the field. We analyze a field experiment at the supplier Hugo Boss to determine how the supp...

Coordinating supply chains has been a major issue in supply chain management research. This paper focuses on the coordination of supply chains with downside-risk-averse agents. Motivating by the revenue sharing contract, we developed the sufficient conditions for the coordination of the supply chain with one downside-risk-averse agent. Following the sufficient conditions, the downside protectio...

We provide a broad characterization of the supply chain settings in which perfect coordination can be achieved with a simple wholesale pricing scheme based on constant unit wholesale prices or a single quantity discount scheme. We confine ourselves to two-echelon chains with a single supplier servicing a network of retailers who compete with each other by selecting retail prices (Bertrand compe...

We consider a single stage production-inventory system whose production and demand rates are modulated by an environment process modeled as a finite state Continuous Time Markov Chain (CTMC). When the inventory level reaches zero, an order is placed from an external supplier, and it arrives instantaneously. We derive an Economic Order Quantity (EOQ ) policy that minimizes the long-run average c...

We consider a problem in which a supplier must determine the transportation mode for product deliveries to satisfy demand from a set of retailers. Based on combinations of four possible transportation modes, we consider seven different distribution policies on set of instances derived from data from an Italian company. For three demand scenarios (low, moderate, high), we compare the performance...

Abstract This paper considers a supply chain with the first order autoregressive and the first order moving average (ARMA (1,1)) demand. The lead time demand is estimated using the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) forecasting technique. The expression of the bullwhip effect for a two stage supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer is derived, and the existence condition of the bu...

Although advancements have been made in the management of projects due to digitalization and automation technologies, efficient use digital data is still lacking for coordination supply chain. This paper presents an approach that allows data-driven schedule-oriented chain face demand fluctuations. The consists two main steps contractors should take: 1) monitor fluctuations based on a 4D model c...

Given a set of users with known demands, a set of suppliers with known supplies, and known costs of shipping between suppliers and users, the Bottleneck Single Source Transportation is that of assigning the users to the suppliers so that the following conditions are satisfied: (i) the demand of each user is satisfied by a single supplier; (ii) the amount supplied by each supplier does not excee...

We investigate how a quantity discount schedule can be used to influence stocking decisions and supply chain performance in single-period interactions between a supplier and buyer(s). In contrast to much of the work that has been done on single-period supply contracts, we assume that there are no interactions between the supplier and the buyer(s) after demand information is revealed. Furthermor...

This paper constructs an emergency quantity discount contract to explore the inherent law of coordinating supply chain with stochastic market demand and price risk-averse supplier. Meanwhile, conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) risk measure criterion is revised study influence supplier’s aversion attitude on coordination. The results show that supplier will cause bifurcation relevant factors in un...