We study the performance of a stylized supply chain where multiple retailers and a single producer compete in a Cournot-Stackelberg game. At time t = 0 the retailers order a single product from the producer and upon delivery at time T > 0, they sell it in the retail market at a stochastic clearance price. We assume the retailers’ profits depend in part on the realized path of some tradeable sto...

Integrated production-distribution planning (PDP) is one of the most important approaches in supply chain networks. We consider a supply chain network (SCN) to consist of multi suppliers, plants, distribution centers (DCs), and retailers. A bi-objective mixed integer linear programming model for integrating production-distribution designed here aim to simultaneously minimize total net costs in ...

With the development of the computer technology, many retailers sale the products not only in the entity shop, but also in the online shop. The network channel brings a lot of convenience. However, it also produces the channel conflict. In the dual channel supply chain, the retailers are in a passive position. Therefore, they begin to use the optimal dynamical pricing strategy to determine the ...

A famous passage in Section 64 of Frege’s Grundlagen may be seen as a justification for the truth abstraction principles. The is grounded procedure content recarving which Frege describes passage. In this paper I argue that while possibly correct case first-order equivalence relations insufficient to grant second-order abstractions. Moreover, propose possible way justifying abstractions by refe...

In this paper we describe the distribution problems faced by one of the largest retailers in the distribution and sale of fast moving consumer goods in the U.K. The paper describes an initial solution method, which is then improved by a novel form of simulated annealing. A computational experiment for the improvement algorithm has been also carried out in order to illustrate the flexibility of ...

We study the competition of two supply chains which are subject to supply uncertainty. Each supply chain consists of a supplier and a retailer. The retailers engage in Cournot competition by determining order quantities from their exclusive suppliers. The suppliers may not be able to fulfill the retailer orders at all time due to various causes. We examine the decisions of the suppliers and ret...

This paper focuses on formulating capacity-price trade off problem in Yield Management for manufactur-ing industry by drawing motivation from the remarkable success of Yield Management (YM) implementation in airlines. In the current practice, there is no alternative and procedure for the manufacturer, as well as cus-tomers to take advantage of using the unfulfilled capacity in discounted offers...