This article develops a supply chain coordination model with a single-vendor and a single-buyer. The vendor manufactures the product in lots and delivers to the buyer in equal shipments. However, the vendor’s production process is not perfectly reliable. During a production run, the process may shift from an in-control state to an out-ofcontrol state at any random time and produces some defecti...

Environmental responsibility has become an important part of doing business. Government regulations and customers’ increased awareness of environmental issues are pushing supply chain entities to reduce the negative influence of their operations on the environment. In today’s world, companies must assume joint responsibility with their suppliers for the environmental impact of their actions. In...

Abstract Prior studies show that coordinating supply chain inventories with common replenishment epochs (CRE) provides benefit for vendor and buyers. Coordination using selective discount (SD) strategy allows some buyers to participate in the coordination scheme while other buyers continue to order as earlier. This can reduce the vendor’s total cost more than that of all buyers participating an...

Here, we consider single vendor-buyer model with multi-product and multi-customer and multi-facility location-production-distribution problem. It is assumed that the players of the supply chain are coordinated by sharing information. Vendor manufactures produce different products at different plants with limited capacities and then distribute the products to the consumers according to determini...

In this paper, we consider a dual-channel vendor-buyer system consisting of a buyer and two vendor-owned facilities: a central distribution center (DC) and a regional DC. Orders for a single item are delivered through two distinct channels: an indirect channel, comprising the central DC, the regional DC and the buyer; and a direct channel, comprising the central DC and the buyer, bypassing the ...

    inventory model,   backorder   buyer ,   vendor,   lot for lot policy In this paper, an inventory model for two-stage supply chain is investigated. A supply chain with single vendor and single buyer is considered. We assume that shortage as a backorder is allowed for the buyer and the vendor makes the production set up every time the buyer places an order and supplies on a lot for lot basis...

Despite a growing interest in channel coordination, no detailed analytical or numerical results measuring its impact on system performance have been reported in the literature. Hence, this paper aims to develop analytical and numerical results documenting the system-wide cost improvement rates that are due to coordination. To this end, we revisit the classical buyer–vendor coordination problem ...