the wholesale price to maximize supplier profits. However, these deviations from optimal have rarely been examined at an … supplier, suppliers set wholesale price contracts which deviate from profit-maximization in ways that are either generous or …

leakage. Results: The DO exploits its information advantage to obtain a better wholesale price from the VI and may use dual … sourcing to protect its private information. Anticipating that, the VI may offer wholesale price concessions as an information … information acquisition in a separating equilibrium. On the other hand, the DO's benefit is a cheaper price in exchange for market …

contract manufacturer. We first analyze the OEMs' procurement game under a non-strategic supplier whose component price is … profit. Then we study the OEMs' procurement game under a strategic supplier who can set its component price. We find that the …This paper studies the optimal component procurement strategies of two competing OEMs selling substitutable products …

This paper explores the merits of hedging stochastic input costs (i.e., reducing the risk of adverse changes in costs …) in a decentralized, risk neutral supply chain. Specifically, we consider a generalized version of the well-known ‘selling … have value to at least some of the members of the supply chain. We identify conditions under which the risk of the supply …

leakage. Results: The DO exploits its information advantage to obtain a better wholesale price from the VI and may use dual … sourcing to protect its private information. Anticipating that, the VI may offer wholesale price concessions as an information … information acquisition in a separating equilibrium. On the other hand, the DO’s benefit is a cheaper price in exchange for market …