Motivated by the recent trend of increasing transparency and traceability in the food and pharmaceutical industries, we investigate the impacts of traceability on a supply chain in which a buyer (e.g., a procurement agent or retailer) sources a product from multiple competing suppliers. When a...

Problem definition: This paper studies the effects of product tracing and recalls in a supply chain with one retailer and multiple manufacturers, each of which may reduce the product quality below the required standard to save production cost, but at the risk of being caught.Academic/practical...

We consider a supply chain where an OEM (manufacturer) sources a component from multiple suppliers. OEM uses the component to make a product that he then sells to end customers. When a component fails in the field, warranty costs are incurred. The focus of the paper is to examine various...