In this paper, an incentive scheme based on crashing lead time is proposed to coordinate a supplier-retailer supply chain (SC). In the investigated SC, the supplier applies a lot-for-lot replenishment policy to replenish its stock and determines the replenishment multiplier. Moreover, the transportation lead time is considered under the control of the supplier. The retailer as downstream member...

This paper introduces a collaborative strategy in the supply chain that demonstrates potential to reduce management inventory costs, through the coordinated replenishment of multiple items from noncompetitors vendors. The proposed approach is an extension of the classical joint replenishment problem (JRP) denominated as stochastic collaborative joint replenishment problem (S-CJRP) since conside...

A “phantom stockout” is a retail stockout phenomenon caused either by inventory shrinkage or by shelf execution failure. Unlike the conventional stockout which can be corrected by inventory replenishment, a phantom stockout persists and requires human interventions. In this paper, we propose two partially-observable Markov decision models: one for the shrinkage problem and the other for the she...