Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to help business marketers with offline channels to make decisions on whether to sell through Group-buying (GB) websites and how to set online price with the coordination of maximum deal size on GB websites. Design/methodology/approach: Considering the deal...

Fast economic growth inChina, as one of the largest manufacturing bases and markets in global economy, has stimulated innovations in financial service for facilitating supply chain operations. We have surveyed the supply chain finance industry inChina, and provide an introduction of commonly...

Fast economic growth inChina, as one of the largest manufacturing bases and markets in global economy, has stimulated innovations in financial service for facilitating supply chain operations. We have surveyed the supply chain finance industry inChina, and provide an introduction of commonly...

We consider the problem of setting prices and choosing production quantities for a single product over a finite horizon for a capacity-constrained manufacturer facing price-sensitive demands. There is a fixed cost per production run and a variable cost per unit produced, both of which may vary...

Usually, a medium such as water and electrical current is transported through an energy distribution network for delivering energy. Driving the medium through the network will lead to power loss. In this paper, a fundamental study was conducted to find out the optimal/near-optimal shape of an...