This article develops a dynamic game model of a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer to study the coordination mechanism and the effect of demand disruption on the coordination mechanism, where the market demand is sensitive to retail price and service. We assume that the supplier and the retailer only know the distribution of the disrupted amount after the demand disrup...

Two important decisions in supply chains and logistics systems design are the supplier selection order allocation (SS&OA) problem vehicle routing (VRP). Supply disruption may reduce capacity of suppliers, transportation network decrease number vehicles fleet disrupt some routes. Also, increasing environmental regulations awareness makes companies pay more attention to green chain management (GS...

Omnichannel retailing strategies are widely used in practice and have been extensively studied recent years, but few studies explored omnichannel operations response to supply disruption the post-pandemic era. To fill this gap, study explores whether adoption of fulfillment options (i.e., ship-from-store ship-to-store options) can mitigate risk a chain where retailer orders products from reliab...

The purpose of this paper is to find out current supplier development practices employed by different organization. Paper mainly focuses on supplier development, supplier development activities, programs, critical elements and beneficial move by buyer. Importance of relationship development and factors responsible for it long with current gaps in this field is discussed in brief.

Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. This paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.The models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. Outside and local s...

Firms depend heavily on trade credit. In the years 1980-2004 about 60% of all inputs to production were purchased with a delayed payment. This paper provides evidence that trade credit connection plays signi cant role in the growth stability of customers by reducing the propagation of rm-level shocks from suppliers onto their customers. On average, customer experiences about 20% lower disruptio...

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 ...

In this paper, the authors analyze 91 key account relationships and 206 ordinary supplier–buyer dyads regarding differences in suppliers' relational behaviors and customers' perceptions of relationship quality (satisfaction, trust, and commitment). The results suggest that while – as compared to ordinary relationships – suppliers put significantly more effort in “value-creating behaviors” in ke...