Analysis of Pull Postponement by EOQ-based Models -- Analysis of Postponement Strategy by EPQ-based Models -- Evaluation of a Postponement System with an (r, q) Policy -- Simulation of a Two-End-Product Postponement System -- Application of Postponement: Examples from Industry -- Conclusions,...

Risk management has become an essential issue in supply chain management, from the modeling of the decision maker's risk preference, and the studies on uncertain elements such as demand, supply, price, lead time, etc., to the consideration of more practical background including cash flow...

In the current paper, we examine the effect of a B2B spot market on the strategic behavior and the performance of a reseller who continues to use the traditional channel while participating in a B2B spot market. We analyze the case in which a risk-neutral reseller faces an additive or...

Risk management has become an essential tool in dealing with the risk issues in supply chains. The purpose of this paper lies in surveying the applications of risk management to supply chains and reviewing the existing literature. To achieve the above purpose, some representative works are...

B2B spot market has grown rapidly and become an effective trading channel for commodity products. Besides long-term contract procurement from conventional suppliers (forward and option), a buyer can procure or sell commodities at any time in B2B spot market to adjust her inventory level....

We explore buyback contracts in a supplier–retailer supply chain where the retailer faces a price-dependent downward-sloping demand curve subject to uncertainty. Differentiated from the existing literature, this work focuses on analytically examining how the uncertainty level embedded in...

The emergence of B2B spot markets has greatly facilitated spot trading and impacted supply chain structures as well as the way commercial transactions take place between firms in many industries. While providing new opportunities, the B2B spot market also exposes participants to a price risk....