Recently, price contract models between suppliers and retailers, with stochastic demand have been analyzed based on well-known newsvendor problems. In Bernstein and Federgruen [6], they have analyzed a contract model with single supplier and multiples retailers and price dependent demand, where retailers compete on retail prices. Each retailer decides a number of products he procures from the s...

Simultaneous reductions in inventory of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished items have recently become a major focus in supply chain management. Vendor-managed inventory is a well-known practice in supply chain collaborations, in which manufacturer manages inventory at the retailer and decides about the time and replenishment. In this paper, an integrated vendor-managed inventory model...

This paper introduces a new motivation for information sharing in decentralized supply chains—as a mechanism to achieve truthful information sharing and to reduce signaling costs. We study a twoechelon supply chain with one manufacturer selling a homogenous product to n price-setting competing retailers. Each retailer has access to private information about the potential market demand, and the ...

In the current study, a dual-channel supply chain is considered containing one manufacturer and two retailers. It is assumed that the manufacturer and retailers have the same decision powers. A game-theoretic approach is developed to analyze pricing decisions under the centralized and decentralized scenarios. First, the Nash model is established to obtain the equilibrium decisions in the decent...

I many industries, Internet referral services, hosted either by independent third-party infomediaries or by manufacturers, serve as digitally enabled lead generators in electronic markets, directing consumer traffic to downstream retailers in a distribution network. This reshapes the extended enterprise from the traditional network of upstream manufacturers and downstream retailers to include m...

With the development of the computer technology, many retailers sale the products not only in the entity shop, but also in the online shop. The network channel brings a lot of convenience. However, it also produces the channel conflict. In the dual channel supply chain, the retailers are in a passive position. Therefore, they begin to use the optimal dynamical pricing strategy to determine the ...

About fifty percent of online retailers make a profit, while fifty percent take a loss (Swanson, 2002), and that motivates us to understand the factors that make online retailers profitable. Among other possibilities, the alignment between business strategy and e-commerce strategy might be one of the critical factors that influence a firm’s profitability. In this paper we explore this influence...

Engineering approaches for optimizing designs within a market context generally take the perspective of a single producer, asking what design and price point will maximize producer profit predicted by consumer choice simulations. These approaches treat competitors and retailers as fixed or nonexistent, and they take business-oriented details, such as the structure of distribution channels, as s...

VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) system is known as an effective mechanism to reduce the bullwhip effect between suppliers and buyers, by switching the responsibility of inventory management from buyers to suppliers. Although most attempts of VMI implementation have been successful, there were some failure cases such as in South Korea. VMI system was beneficial only to the buyer and hurt the long...

The popularization of smartphones and the acceleration their replacement lead to a surge in mobile phone disposal. How recycle waste phones efficiently becomes major problem today's society. The "Internet +" recycling mode is an effective way solve this problem. process involves retailers, manufacturers, third parties other parts. Retailers have natural advantages compared with parts...