As environmental issues become the focus of global attention, low-carbon economy based on concept low energy consumption, pollution, and sustainable development is becoming attention. This new trend brings challenges opportunities to supply chain management. In view current trend, each node enterprise in should have dual compatibility environment. How balance profits nodes an important issue fo...

The development of information technology has changed the pricing strategy retailers, and consumers have also made strategic consumption behaviours accordingly. At same time, changes in environment caused retailer’s products raised consumers’ environmental awareness. This paper uses a two-stage model to study low-carbon product decisions retailers based on with preferences two situations. Throu...

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...

The study aims to increase our knowledge of how a retailer can survive in recession economy by changing its competitive strategy. In particular, the study is to identify those strategies that can help retailers to maintain successful performance despite turbulence in the operational environment. A case study approach is employed to explore a whole picture of a successful retailer’s actions and ...

In this study, a contract for vertical and horizontal coordination is developed in which transportation mode and carbon emissions tax play a key role in determining the values of the contract parameters. The contract is designed for simultaneous coordination of cooperative advertising and periodic review replenishment decisions of a supplier and two competitive retailers. To obtain the optimal ...

this research provides an optimization tool for use by supply chain managers in the design and operation of manufacturing- distribution networks under uncertain demand conditions. the problem under consideration consists of determining the supply chain infrastructure; raw material purchases, shipments, and inventories; and finished product production quantities, inventories, and shipments neede...

The retail industry plays an important role in the economic development of the world. The Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) solution can coordinate the business process between the retailers and manufacturers in the retail supply chain and got its applications in many world-renowned retailers around the world. In this paper, CPFR coordination process and its applicati...

This article studies a two-period, closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with manufacturer or retailer recycling. It establishes model analysis framework to analyze pricing optimization strategies and the channel-mode selection of electric vehicle batteries considers recycling scenarios. When recycles, it needs invest capital build its channel so suffers from constraints. For this reason, retailers c...

Motivated by retailers’ frequent introduction of new items to refresh product lines and maintain their market shares, we present the assortment packing problem in which a firm must decide, in advance, the release date of each product in a given collection over a selling season. Our formulation models the trade-offs among profit margins, preference weights, and limited life cycles. A key aspect ...