This paper considers the reliable multi-product multi-vehicle multi-type link logistics network design problem (RMLNDP) with system disruptions, which is concerned with facilities locating, transshipment links constructing, and also allocating them to the customers in order to satisfy their demand on minimum expected total cost (including locating costs, link constructing costs, and also expect...

Abstract Supply and distribution management of blood products is a challenging task due to their short lifespan. The problem even more sophisticated considering uncertain demand for these products. This paper addresses integrated inventory-routing in supply chain network consisting single supplier group centers. Transshipment among centers allowed decrease the cost excess inventory shortage goo...

We consider dynamic, infinitely repeated downstream price competition. In every period, a retailer cannot observe the contract that the competing retailer offers to a joint supplier. We find that even though contracts are secret, they enable retailers to collude. The more the retailers and the supplier care about future profits, retailers obtain a higher share of the monopoly profits. We also f...

Private labels, also known as store brands, are an important component of competitive strategy among multi-product retailers, as they can increase retailers’ power over suppliers in the vertical channel or facilitate horizontal differentiation among retailers. This paper seeks to identify the relative importance of each role, conditional on the location of both private labels and national brand...

This paper considers vertical price relationships between wholesalers and retailers on five local maize markets in Benin. We show that if the common factor and the long-run disequilibrium error are not explicitly taken into account in testing the channel model, one can easily be wrong about how restrictions on the error-correction structure must be interpreted in terms of economic power in the ...

Supply chain management is a crucial task of managing large organizations. In a decentralized supply chain each member focuses on maximizing his own profit. As a result of it, the conflict between the manufacturer and the retailers will arise. To avoid this sort of situations, coordination model strike a balancing between the profit of manufacturers and retailers. This paper investigates a two ...

How to develop material ordering and transferring plans in advance ensure smooth production of the enterprise is a major problem faced by actual process. In this paper, we make reasonable assumptions combining supply transshipment data previous years establish supply-transshipment model based on 0-1 planning. Firstly, selected Supply demand ratio, large order error rate, rate as evaluation inde...

This paper adopts agent-based simulation to study the horizontal competition among homogenous price-setting retailers in a one-to-many supply chain (one supplier and multiple retailers). We model the supplier and retailers as agents, and design their behavioral rules respectively. The results show that although the agents learn individually based on their own experiences, the system shows an as...