Integrated logistics and financial services have been practiced by third party logistics (3PL)firms for years; however, the literature has been silent on the value of 3PL firms as creditproviders in budget-constrained supply chains. This paper investigates an extended supplychain model with a...

This paper evaluates the simultaneous determination of price and inventory replenishment when a firm faces demand from distinct market segments. A firm utilizes fences, such as advance or nonrefundable payment, to maintain separation of its market segments; however, fences are imperfect and...

Integrated logistics and financial services have been practiced by third party logistics (3PL) firms for years; however, the literature has been silent on the value of 3PL firms as credit providers in budget-constrained supply chains. This paper investigates an extended supply chain model with a...

Few papers have studied the optimal pricing and ordering with partial lost sales from a two-stage game theoretic perspective. This paper considers a supply chain game with a buyer and a seller through pricing and ordering models with partial lost sales. We evaluate the optimal solutions for the...