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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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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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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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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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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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in the pricing and lot-sizing decision, which causes the problem much more challenging. We first investigate the …
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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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Cooperative advertising is an agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer to share advertising cost at the local level. Previous studies have not investigated cooperative advertising for complementary products and their main focus was only on one good. In this paper, we study a two-echelon...
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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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pricing and negotiation. Hence, this dissertation visits two problem domains in operations management, assuming that a …-constrained manufacturer's wholesale pricing problem, assuming that the retailer is free to choose sales formats. The first problem considers a … price that a retailer would choose in the take-it-or-leave-it pricing. This price premium helps the retailer extract more …
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