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Modern supply chain is a complex system and plays an important role for different sectors under the globalization economic integration background. Supply chain management system is proposed to handle the increasing complexity and improve the efficiency of flows of goods. It is also useful to prevent potential frauds and guarantee trade compliance. Currently, most companies maintain their own IT system...
This paper investigates the impact of the retailer's overconfident preference on the supply chain performance under demand uncertainty in a duopoly market. We consider a two-echelon supply chain composed of one rational manufacturer, one rational retailer and one overconfident retailer. In the duopoly market, the demand is affected by retailers' selling prices and other random factors. According to...
This paper analyzes how a supplier manages the retailer's ordering quantity through a buy-back contract to maximize his profit when the demand information is asymmetric between the supplier and retailer. The retailer acts as a classical newsvendor to determine his order. And the supplier has no information on the demand mode, and only knows about the probability about what the demand mode is. In this...
Manufactures usually adopt variable sales policies to deal with variable retailers. For perishable products, retailers make inventory management strategic to optimize their revenue. In this article, the problem of product buy-back in the supply chain is considered with demand uncertainty. We also provide what is the best time to take buy-back.
To find the risks in food supply chain and to take appropriate measures to guard against risks and increase capacity of food supply chain to resist risks. The paper established Logistic regression early-warning model to recognise magnitude of risks based on principal component analysis and Logistic regression analysis. An empirical analysis is carried out to test the model by take out some food enterprises...
In this paper, we discuss the problem and challenge for the reverse logistics of the publishing industry in China. First we present the background of the publishing industry in China through analyzing the statistics data of the past 8 years. Then we point out existing problems and its underlying reasons existed in the industry. Finally we propose our solutions and suggestions to cope with the existing...
This paper introduced reference effect into supply chain composed with manufacturers and retailers, and built the game-theoretical model to decide the optimal discount price and order quantity. Considering the situation where the market demand is affected by spot price and reference price, we adopted dynamic programming and classical variation method to analyze the dynamic game equilibrium between...
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