Agriculture sector plays very crucial role in the economic growth of India. For sustaining its further growth, supply chain of agriculture sector needs to be strengthened. Agriculture sector is facing lot of challenges due to poor infrastructure, unorganised retail market, poor adoption of modern technology and overall inefficient supply chain. There is strong need to develop linkages between f...

T This paper analyzes different pricing strategies in a two-echelon supply chain including one supplier and two retailers. The supplier and the retailers face random yield and random demand, respectively. Moreover, coordination or non-coordination of retailers in receiving the discount is investigated. Game theory is used to model and analyze the problems. The supplier as a leader of Stackelbe...

In this paper, we explore the issue of coordination in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain where the manufacturer is socially responsible and invests in CSR activities. On the other hand, the retailer invests in promotional efforts and uses a periodic review order-up-to policy for replenishing items. First, the decentralized decision-making structure is modeled to calculate the minimum accepta...

Coordination is defined as the management of interdependencies of activities. Due to the complexities of supply chain, the coordination of activities among all the parties involved in the supply chain is quite challenging. This paper proposes a framework for supply chain coordination and optimization by applying agent technology. The research aims to automate the coordination and optimize the d...

Coordination plays crucial role in supply chain scheduling. In this paper, we extend the existing body of literature on supply chain scheduling by representing the robust schedule coordination approach. A hybrid discrete/continuous flow shop supply chain with job shop processes at each supplier stage is studied with dynamic optimal control models. We consider operations, channel, resource and f...

Supply chain coordination is among the central issues in supply chain management. A supply chain is coordinated if all supply chain members adopt the actions that optimize the entire system’s performance. However, in most cases, supply chain firms are independent, self-interested entities that may deviate from the system-optimal actions. This article provides an introductory review on how firms...

Coordination within a supply chain is a strategic response to the problems that arise from interorganizational dependencies within the chain. A coordination mechanism is a set of methods used to manage interdependence between organizations. Given the increasing importance of high-performance supply, and the advantages to be gained through supply chain coordination, the challenge to an organizat...