This study deals with a two-level supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. We consider an integrated production inventory system where the manufacturer processes raw materials in order to deliver finished product with imperfect quality to the retailer, where number of defective product has a uniform distribution. The retailer receives product and conducts a 100% inspection....

this paper aims to evaluate inventory cost of a two-echelon serial supply chain system under vendor managed inventory program with stochastic demand, and examine the effect of environmental factors on the cost of overall system. for this purpose, we consider a two-echelon serial supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. under vendor managed inventory program, the decision on inventory le...

W e consider a supply chain with a supplier that sells to a retailer under a revenue-sharing arrangement. Demand is uncertain and unobservable to the supplier. We assume that the retailer is rational, that is, the retailer behaves opportunistically and underreports sales revenues to the supplier whenever such underreporting is profitable. Assuming the supplier has the ability to audit the retai...

We study the effects of credit risk in a supply chain where one retailer deals with competing risky suppliers who may default during their production lead-times. The suppliers, who compete for business with the retailer by establishing wholesale prices, are leaders in a Stackelberg game with the retailer. The retailer, facing uncertain future demand, chooses order quantities while weighing the ...

We consider a three-stage fresh agricultural product supply chain consisting of supplier, third-party logistics service provider (TPLSP), and retailer discuss the coordination mechanism “revenue sharing + double cost sharing” contracts “two-part tariff revenue between TPLSP, retailer. Based on this, we not only explore conditions for full Pareto improvement but also analyze effect blockchain te...

Strong brand equity is important for any business. Although the concept of has been studied in various fields, its analysis not as extensive retail sector. On other hand, engagement gaining more importance recent times. Customer an increasingly relevant and researched topic. However, studies that relate this to trade are common. The present work aims analyze effect on different components equit...

We construct a model of a local ketchup market of a city in Texas that accounts for household, manufacturer, and retailer decisions. That is, the model develops both the demand and the supply side of the market. The demand side is modeled through a latent utility framework allowing for the ‘no-purchase’ option. Accounting for both sides of the market allows one to check for any endogeneity prob...

T paper studies a manufacturer that sells to a newsvendor retailer who can improve the quality of her demand information by exerting costly forecasting effort. In such a setting, contracts play two roles: providing incentives to influence the retailer’s forecasting decision and eliciting information obtained by forecasting to inform production decisions. We focus on two forms of contracts that ...

We study the effects of disruption risk in a supply chain where one retailer deals with competing risky suppliers who may default during their production lead-times. The suppliers, who compete for business with the retailer by establishing wholesale prices, are leaders in a Stackelberg game with the retailer. The retailer, facing uncertain future demand, chooses order quantities while weighing ...

It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the …rms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly competing) retailers. We …nd that some key conclusions from those market structures do not apply in our s...