This paper studies the risks in demand information sharing applications by electronic soft-orders using electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in e-commerce and aims to suggest a sustainable regulation mechanism with a trust-embedded contract. In a supply chain with one retailer and one supplier, the retailer solicits private forecasted demand and places soft-orders via EDI to the supplier. ...

We explore the value of information (VOI) in the context of a retailer that provides a perishable product to consumers and receives replenishment from a single supplier. We assume a periodic review model with stochastic demand, lost sales, and order quantity restrictions. The product lifetime is fixed and deterministic once received by the retailer, although the age of replenished items provide...

We study the strategic interaction between the introduction of an online channel by a national brand manufacturer (NBM) and the introduction of store brands by the retailer. We consider three models: (i) the base model without the online channel in the market but the retailer is allowed to introduce the store brand; (ii) the base model without the store brand in the market but the NBM may intro...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal retailer’s lot-sizing decisions under partial payments delay within the economic order quantity (EOQ) framework. All previously published models concerned with payments delay assumed that the supplier would offer the retailer fully payments delay. However, in this paper, we assume that the supplier would offer the retailer partial pay...

When a retailer holds no private information, a powerful supplier can use several contract types to extract for herself the first-best channel profit, leaving the retailer nothing but his reservation profit. In the case where the retailer holds private information on the probability distribution of market demand, most well analyzed contracts do not allow the supplier to achieve for herself the ...

We consider a distribution problem in which a product has to be shipped from a supplier to several retailers over a given time horizon. Each retailer defines a maximum inventory level. The supplier monitors the inventory of each retailer and determines its replenishment policy, guaranteeing that no stockout occurs at the retailer (Vendor Managed Inventory policy). Every time a retailer is visit...

This paper investigates the application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to eliminate the misplacement problems in the supply chain, which consists of a risk-neutral manufacturer and a riskaverse retailer. By considering both fixed cost and tag cost of RFID implementation, we study the agents' incentives to adopt RFID in both uncoordinated and coordinated cases. We focus on a...

This paper discusses the economic order quantity ( EOQ ) under partial trade credit. In 1985, Goyal assumed that: (i) The unit selling price and the unit purchasing price were equal. (ii) The supplier would offer the retailer full trade credit under condition of delay payments. The main purpose of this paper wants to modify Goyal’s model to presume that the unit selling price and the unit purch...

This paper studies the effect of uncertain demand on a low-carbon product by using a newsvendor model. With two different kinds of market scales, we examine a game whereby a manufacturer produces and delivers a single new low-carbon product to a single retailer. The retailer observes the demand information and gives an order before the selling season. We find in the game that if the retailer sh...

Cooperative advertising is an agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer to share advertising cost at the local level. Previous studies have not investigated cooperative advertising for complementary products and their main focus was only on one good. In this paper, we study a two-echelon supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer with two complementary goods. The demand ...