<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Advertising has a crucial impact on product's goodwill. To further improve goodwill and make more profit, member firms in the supply chain use various contracts to coordinate channel. Considering dynamic effect of advertising, this paper studies two-level consisting one manufacturer retailer. The two members focus maximizing their profits through advertising p...

A logistics service integrator (LSI) usually requires a provider (LSP) to carry out smart transformation in order improve the level of service. However, LSP’s faces uncertainty terms investments and income, which seriously hinders enthusiasm for innovation. In this paper, we construct supply chain (LSSC) consisting an LSI LSP explore incentive mechanism LSPs undergo transformation. As benchmark...

We introduce and study the range contract, which allows a buyer to procure from a supplier at a prescribed price any amountwithin a specified range. In return, the supplier is compensated up front for thewidth of the rangewith a range fee. This fee canbe viewed as the buyer tradingmonetary value for reduceduncertainty. The range contract generalizes and unifiesmany common contracts, such as fix...

This article studies the design of contracts involving a single retailer and multiple competing manufacturers who supply substitutable products. We consider retail context in which with are negotiated relatively infrequently signed before demand environment is known, prices determined when known. develop Stackelberg model to study retailer's product selection pricing decisions manufacturers' co...

2. Explain transaction-cost economics (TCE) and how this concept relates to supply-chain management. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the ten key insights from Oliver Williamson’s TCE model. 4. Categorize the types of supply chain present in a typical healthcare organization in terms of their associated risk to the healthcare organization. 5. Integrate healthcare supply-chain principles with ...

Current research on smart contracts focuses technical, conceptual, and legal aspects but neglects organizational requirements sustainability impacts. We consider this a significant gap explore the relationship between in supply chains. First, we define concept of terms chain management. Then, conduct content analysis literature to overlapping fields Next, develop semi-structured assessment fram...

We study the competition of two supply chains which are subject to supply uncertainty. Each supply chain consists of a supplier and a retailer. The retailers engage in Cournot competition by determining order quantities from their exclusive suppliers. The suppliers may not be able to fulfill the retailer orders at all time due to various causes. We examine the decisions of the suppliers and ret...