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Risk pooling strategy in a multi-echelon supply chain with price-sensitive demand
Dai, Yue; Fang, Shu-Cherng; Ling, Xiaoli; Nuttle, Henry - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 67 (2008) 3, pp. 391-421
This paper studies a nonstationary inventory and pricing problem. We consider a two-echelon supply chain with one …. We start with analyzing inventory and pricing strategies for the supplier in a one-period scenario. Then we extend our …
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A Game Theoretic Framework for Competing/Cooperating Retailers under price and advertising dependent demand
Dridi, Dhouha; Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
expenditures. To identify optimal advertising and pricing decisions, we discuss three possible games (two non cooperative games …
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PRICING AND INVENTORY STRATEGIES FOR A TWO-STAGE DUAL-CHANNEL SUPPLY CHAIN
NIU, RUN H.; ZHAO, XUAN; CASTILLO, IGNACIO; JORO, TARJA - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 29 (2012) 01, pp. 1240004-1
-channel strategy that includes both web-based channels and pre-existing offline channels. In this paper, we consider joint pricing and …-channel retailer, pricing in one channel will affect the demand in the other channel. This subsequently affects the retailer …. It is clear then that pricing decisions and inventory/production decisions are interacting in each member of the supply …
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Note. The Role of Returns Policies in Pricing and Inventory Decisions for Catalogue Goods
Emmons, Hamilton; Gilbert, Stephen M. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 2, pp. 276-283
Manufacturers often use returns policies to encourage retailers to stock and price items more aggressively. We focus on the effect that such policies have on both a retailer's and a manufacturer's profits when the retailer must commit prior to the selling season to both a stocking quantity and a...
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Capacity Investments in Supply Chains: Sharing the Gain Rather Than Sharing the Pain
Tomlin, Brian - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 5 (2003) 4, pp. 317-333
In this paper, we investigate price-only contracts in supply chain capacity procurement games. For a two-party supply chain, comprising a manufacturer and a supplier that both invest in capacity, we prove the existence of a class of coordinating price-only contracts that arbitrarily allocate the...
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A joint optimal pricing and order quantity model under parameter uncertainty and its practical implementation
Lim, Sungmook - In: Omega 41 (2013) 6, pp. 998-1007
We consider a robust optimization model of determining a joint optimal bundle of price and order quantity for a retailer in a two-stage supply chain under uncertainty of parameters in demand and purchase cost functions. Demand is modeled as a decreasing power function of product price, and unit...
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SELLER-BUYER RELATIONSHIP WHEN END DEMAND IS SENSITIVE TO PRICE AND PROMOTION
ESMAEILI, MARYAM; ABAD, PRAKASH L.; ARYANEZHAD, MIR-BAHADOR - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 26 (2009) 05, pp. 605-621
In this paper, we consider a seller–buyer channel in which marketing expenditure is an endogenous decision for the buyer. We assume that both the unit marketing expenditure and the unit price charged by the buyer influence the end demand for the product. We model the seller–buyer...
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On the impact of advertising initiatives in supply chains
Zhang, Wenqing; Li, Shanling; Zhang, Dan; Hou, Wenhua - In: European Journal of Operational Research 234 (2014) 1, pp. 99-107
Advertising plays an important role in affecting consumer demand. Socially responsible firms are expected to use advertising judiciously, limiting advertising of “bad” products. An example is the advertising initiative adopted by several major food manufacturers to limit the advertising of...
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Analysis of protection and pricing strategies for digital products under uncertain demand
Avinadav, Tal; Chernonog, Tatyana; Perlman, Yael - In: International Journal of Production Economics 158 (2014) C, pp. 54-64
We analyze pricing and protection (digital rights management) strategies in a two-echelon supply chain that consists of … the Target criterion—and, for each criterion, we obtain the dependence between the pricing and the protection investment …
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Joint optimization of price, replenishment frequency, replenishment cycle and production rate in vendor managed inventory system with deteriorating items
Taleizadeh, Ata Allah; Noori-daryan, Mahsa; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 159 (2015) C, pp. 285-295
This paper develops a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) model for a two-level supply chain comprised of one vendor and several non-competing retailers in which both the raw material and the finished product have different deterioration rates. It is assumed that the market demand for the finished...
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