Supply chain collaboration has the potential to address issues of inefficiency and lack of coordination that often drives down the competitiveness of supply chains. However, collaboration in supply chains is difficult due to ever increasing complexity and conflicting objectives prevalent in...

This study considers a supply chain that consists of n retailers, each of them facing a newsvendor problem, m warehouses and a supplier. The retailers are supplied with a single product via some warehouses. In these warehouses, the ordered amounts of goods of these retailers become available...