Revenue-sharing (RS) contracts have been used in a number of industries and have proven to be effective. However, the current RS contracts can be limited when improving the supply chain performance because of member reliability issues. This paper studies a revenue-sharing with reliability (RSR)...

A major issue in supply chain inventory management is the coordination of inventory policies adopted by different members in a supply chain including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, etc. This paper presents a fractal-based approach for inventory management in order to minimize inventory...

This paper illustrates the relationship between quality improvement, reorder point, and lead time, as affected by backorder rate, in an imperfect production process. To reduce the total system cost by optimizing the setup cost, lot size, lead time, reorder point, and process quality parameter...