In the operations management literature, decentralization is often associated with the double marginalization problem. However, in this chapter, we review several existing papers that demonstrate how decentralization can be beneficial to supply chain performance. A key premise in this literature is that consumers are strategic: They rationally anticipate and respond to future market conditions....

Perishability, a largely unconsidered characteristic of consumer goods, is shown to play an important role in planned multistore shopping behavior. We present a model of consumers as cost minimizing inventory managers, who choose between two stores di!erentiated on location and price, and who purchase perishable and nonperishable goods. We show that the interaction between perishability of good...

⎯In many industries, sellers have the opportunity to enhance their revenues through the dynamic pricing of their perishable products such as flight seats, hotel rooms, or seasonal fashion goods that become worthless if they are not sold by a specific time. Therefore, how to dynamically adjust the prices of perishable products through differentiating the purchased time and the amount of unsold i...

Sustainability in the supply chain means pushing the supply chain to focus on social, economic and environmental aspects, and addressing the existing problems in the traditional supply chain. Considering the importance of evaluating supply chain networks, especially in the field of perishable commodities, this paper aimed to design a mathematical model for the reverse supply chain of perishable...