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To cope with the challenges of traditional quality management system applied in supply chain, which consists of internal practices that are contained within a firm, external practices that cross organizational boundaries integrating a firm with its customers and suppliers, a collaborative quality management system model into supply chain, and corresponding functional modules and framework were all...
This paper develops an optimal technique for dealing with the fuzziness aspect of demand uncertainties facing consumer's decisions. Triangular fuzzy numbers are used to model external demand, and decisions models in both non-cooperative and cooperative situations are proposed and optimal pricing and ordering quantity policies are obtained by model calculating. Finally, based on the closed form solutions...
Consider a supply chain system consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer, in which the manufacturer provides one perishable product to the retailer with a wholesale price, and the retailer sales the product to consumers with a retail price, and the retailer provides partial returns policy for consumers. After knowing the retail price and the refund offered by the retailer, consumers according...
This paper analyses the operation process of VMI first, then a model is established to verify profits of VMI. In the next part, a correction method for Shapley value is devised to embody risk factors in the process of VMI. A case study is put forward to explain feasibility of the model in the end.
A supply chain with one manufacturer and one retailer was considered in this paper. The manufacturer produces a product, and sells it to the retailer who faces fuzzy consumers' demand. By using credibility theory and profit-sharing contract, a coordination mechanism was established, which can fully coordinate the decentralized supply chain system under fuzzy demand case.
In this paper, we consider a two-echelon reverse supply chain system with one manufacturer, one retailer and a group of consumers, which offers consumers with perishable products, and consumers are allowed to return products to the retailer after purchasing. Joint decision models of delivery time and ordering quantity as well as refund was established separately in decentralized decision mode and...
Reverse logistics has gradually become a very important economic activity in 21 century. In general, in addition to retrieval, transportation and disposition as three distinct reverse logistics activities, value-added services such as JIT, quick response, program solutions are most important. The entry of third-party providers for reverse logistics is to strengthen core competences, lower costs and...
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