This paper studies a supply chain consisting of a single vendor and multiple retailers that uses returnable transport items, such as containers or crates, to facilitate shipping products from the vendor to the retailers. The paper considers two different strategies for transporting finished...

This paper studies a supply chain consisting of a single vendor and multiple retailers that uses returnable transport items, such as containers or crates, to facilitate shipping products from the vendor to the retailers. The paper considers two different strategies for transporting finished...

In Zavanella and Zanoni (2009) 'A one-vendor multi-buyer integrated production- inventory model: The ‘Consignment Stock’ Case,' a one-vendor multi-buyer model was established, based on which the cost of the vendor and buyers are derived. However, buyer’s total cost in Equation (2) does not...