Product perishability is a major concern of certain industrial sectors, especially the agro-food industry. This paper investigates the effect of product perishability and retailers’ stockout policy on system total cost, net profit, service level, and average inventory level in a two-echelon inventory–distribution system, and develops an approximate inventory model to these system performance me...

We consider the capacity allocation in a decentralized distribution system with a continuum of retailers, a number of distributors, and a supplier. Retailers privately observe their local demands, and distributors are equipped with information technology that facilitates finer prediction of retailers’ demands. The supplier builds capacity, but observes neither local demands nor the precision of...

In this paper, we consider a two-retailer and one-supplier supply chain in which retailers make an extra effort to satisfy demand from customers who experience stockouts — retailers offer to direct-ship out-of-stock items on an expedited basis at no extra cost to customers. This practice is referred to as the fast-ship option. By supporting the fast-ship option, retailers and suppliers can redu...

Managing shelf space is critical for retailers to attract customers and to optimize profit. This paper develops a shelf space allocation optimization model that explicitly incorporates essential in-store costs and considers spaceand cross-elasticities. We propose a piecewise linearization technique for approximating the complicated nonlinear model that relaxes the nonconvex optimization problem...

This paper used the Game Theory to research how to coordinate a kind of supply chain, which is made up of a dominant manufacturer, a TPL supplier and some retailers. It also discussed the node enterprises’ decision models in three situations: no coordination, partly coordination and all coordination based on symmetric information and proved system’s profit was optimal in the situation of all co...

vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. previous research on this area mainly included single objective optimization models where the objective is to minimize the total supply chain costs or to maximize the total supply chain benefits. this paper presents a bi-objective mathematical mod...

decentralization allows channel members to make their decisions, independently. in this decentralized channels, members may have different power to make its decisions. hence, decisions of each member may influence on the other members’ decisions. to model such situations, bi-level programming models are useful. in this study, a supply chain including one manufacturer and multiple competitive re...

This paper discusses the problem of retailers’ profit maximization regarding displaying products on planogram shelves, which may have different dimensions in each store but allocate same product sets. We develop a mathematical model and genetic algorithm for solving shelf space allocation with criteria maximization. The implemented program executes reasonable time. quality has been evaluated us...

Nowadays, coordination between members in a supply chain has become very important and beneficial to channel members. Through cooperative advertising, manufacturers and retailers can jointly participate in promotional programs. This action not only reduces the cost of advertising, but also is important to create a link with local retailers in order to increase immediate sales at the retail leve...

In this paper, we study the impacts of overconfidence in a competitive retailer setting green fashion. We model fashion supply chain comprising one unbiased manufacturer and two biased retailers, to explore how affects greenness level products expected profit retailers. An overconfident has cognitive bias which it believes consumers are more sensitive than really is. Our findings show that comp...