There is a trend in fashion product industry that firms launch new styles of their products more frequently. To investigate the optimal style launching strategy for a fashion firm, we propose a two-period pricing model for a fashion product firm. The firm sells a style of products in the first...

With the rapid development of express delivery industry, the service quality becomes a topic of interest for academic research. This paper extended the previous research by studying the learning effect in express delivery industry. We propose a two-period model to analyse how the learning effect...

In recent years, sustainability has been a major focus of fashion business operations because fashion industry development causes harmful effects to the environment, both indirectly and directly. The sustainability of the fashion industry is generally based on several levels and this study...

Motivated by the observations that the direct sales channel is increasingly used for customized products and that retailers wield leadership, we develop in this paper a retailer-Stackelberg pricing model to investigate the product variety and channel structure strategies of manufacturer in a...

Long truck queue is a common problem at big marine container terminals, where the resources and equipment are usually scheduled to serve ships prior to trucks. To reduce truck queues, some container terminals adopt terminal appointment system (TAS) to manage truck arrivals. This paper addresses...

The business values of product remanufacturing have been well-recognized in the literature. Companies have also increasingly realized the importance of coordinating the closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs) with both manufacturing and re-manufacturing processes. In this paper, we investigate a CLSC...

Pricing is a crucial decision for electronic fashion retailers. Motivated by various observed industrial practices in electronic retailing, we study in this paper the optimal Internet pricing schemes which employ price testing with Bayesian information updating following the Bernoulli process....

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...