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There are some “multiple-price” problems in the two-echelon supply chain, Manufacturers can adopt vertical restraints, for example, manufacturers can sustain price balance by means of charging for franchise fees or special promotion. But these means have kind of drawbacks and hard to manipulate. Base on the “multiple-price” model, this paper gives the “unified-purchase, scattered-sale” strategy, concludes...
This paper aims to analyze the effects of VMI on supply chain performance and announce the important function of VMI in promoting supply chain coordination, reducing costs and increasing profit. This research builds a VMI inventory decision model of supplier-driver supply chain. According to this model, VMI is found always to reduce the system's(buyer and supplier together) and the buyer's inventory...
Recently, the value chain coordination has been drawing much attention of both researchers and practitioners. One of the most prevalent approaches would be “revenue-sharing”, where a supplier providing products to a retailer works together with the retailer, and the two parties agree upon a contract so as to increase their respective profits. More specifically, the wholesale price of the supplier...
Nowadays, the research on Supply Chain Responsibility (SCR) has raised many concerns. Researchers put supply chain research into the framework of social responsibility, however, little research pays attention to the bounded rationality which is much closer to the society. This research, based on evolutionary game theory, focuses on the evolutionary stable strategy of manufacturers and suppliers whether...
Conflicts between the third-party payment enterprise and bank are increasing gradually, the main conflict is interest, revenue distribution issue seems to be more important. Because of the importance of the market, introducing theoretical framework of service supply chain and enact reasonable revenue distribution plan on that basis, it establishes revenue distribution model through introducing idea...
This research mainly discussed some concrete details about how to make better use of the option contract in the case of biomass supply chain under “Company + Farmer” mode. Based on Stackelberg Game Theory this paper built a contract model, in which the company coordinated the farmer's production and the contract quantity. Moreover, the optimal option exercise price was determined, considering various...
Based on multi-periods recycle of used-products, the pricing model of reverse supply chain with changeable remanufacturing cost is constructed. Collected used-products' sales channel are divided into two situations, one situation is the used-products that can be used directly enter into the second-hand market and the other situation is the used-products that can not be used directly will be remanufactured...
In the context of two supply chains containing one manufacturer and one retailer, the problem of asymmetric cost information game between two supply chains was discussed under Bertrand competition framework. We find that on the one hand, as price sensitivity increases, the profit will increase first and then turn to decrease drastically; On the other hand, as intensity of price competition increases,...
This paper studies the pricing and ordering policy of a two-echelon supply chain with a supplier and a retailer. The retailer has accurate demand information while the supplier does not. The research shows that the uncertainty of the supplier on the demand will lead to a reduction of the supplier's expected profit, which also shows the value of information. Moreover, if the supplier overestimates...
This paper examines impacts of information sharing on decisions of two competing supply chains, which are identical, each consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer, except they might have different information sharing structures. In the two-stage game, three types of information sharing structures, that is, information sharing in both of supply chains, information sharing in one supply chain...
At present, supply chain management has become not only a hot academic research, but also an important respect of the enterprise strategic management. A multi-product, multi-stage integrated supply chain management model was established by multiple-objective programming, which could describe the capability and profit of supply chain members and the coordination operation of supply chain. Then an example...
This paper is a based on research following on from our paper, “Sustainable Supply Chains: Overview and Research Agenda” presented at SCMIS 2009. We compare and contrast three case studies conducted in Sweden and the UK over the past year. The companies comprise a Swedish dairy producer, a fast food chain and a UK potato packaging company. All three aspire to create sustainable business models to...
With the rapid development of e-business, more and more attention is paid on reverse logistics which is brought on by products returns. The main topic of this article is, when repairing and remanufacturing returns goods, how to choose the reverse logistics service pattern. We propose three kinds of closed-loop supply chain models and analyze the profit of B2C firm among these models. We find that...
With drastic market competition, the effective management of supply chain has become more and more important. A multi-product, multi-stage supply chain management model based on vendor managed inventory (VMI) was established by the method of multiple-objective programming, which could describe the capability and profit of supply chain members. Then, an application was given for testing the effectiveness...
With the development of global economic integration, competition between enterprises has evolved to competition between supply chains. It is not enough for enterprise to focus on supply chain performance of its own, because neglecting behavior of rival, decision often deviates from optimal strategy, which can result in failure in competition. We studied the price competition of two-echelon supply...
In a two-echelon supply chain with a manufacturer and n-1 sellers, first of all, the paper proves the conclusion that the channel product transfer price will not make the profit of every member in the supply chain maximum when the supply chain achieves profit maximization, in turn from the perspective of the profit distribution, according to the principle that the unit product cost's profits are equal,...
In order to describe the impacts of adjusting ability of manufacture system on the profit and cost of manufacture system, the model of manufacture system based on SPN (stochastic Petri nets) was constructed. Theorem of adjusting ability of manufacture system under supply chain circumstances on condition that the payoff of supply chain is a steadily increasing process was proposed. In view of such...
Each entity has independent decision right in the supply chain. Incentive for each entity is the main reason for the inefficiency in the system under asymmetric information. Supplier can encourage retailer to declare its real type of selling cost by designation for credit period contract in the two-echelon supply chain. So, individual member reaches win-win, meanwhile, the supply chain whole efficiency...
In a closed-loop supply chain, the manufacturer makes new products and sells them by the retailer in the first period, reclaims used-products by the retailer in the second period. But the supply of used-products is affected not only by the amount of new products that sold to the consumer market, but also by the end-customerpsilas willingness that is affected by the difference between the end-customerpsilas...
This paper quantifies and compares the impact of information sharing (IS) on the performance of different-echelon (namely two-echelon, three-echelon and four-echelon) supply chain with a simulation approach. The performance indexes include Fulfill Rate (FR), Backorder Cost (BC), Inventory Cost (IC) and Profit (PF). The results show that IS has a significantly negative impact on supply chain performance...
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