Gan, Xianghua; Sethi, Suresh P.; Zhou, Jing - In: European Journal of Operational Research 204 (2010) 3, pp. 449-462
We study a drop-shipping supply chain in which the retailer receives a customer's order and the supplier fills it. In such a chain, the supplier keeps inventory and bears inventory risks; the retailer focuses on marketing and customer acquisition, and forwards the orders to the supplier. The...