This paper investigates coordination of a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer facing consumer return. We integrate consumer returns policy and manufacturer buyback policy within a modeling framework and explicitly model the positive effect of refund amount on demand and...

We develop a price-service competition model of two supply chains to investigate the optimal decisions of players under demand uncertainty. Each supply chain consists of one risk-neutral supplier and one risk-averse retailer. We analyze the effects of the retailers' risk sensitivity on the...

This paper develops an information revelation mechanism model of a one-manufacturer and one-retailer supply chain facing an outside integrated-competitor under demand uncertainty. We investigate how the manufacturer designs a wholesale price-order quantity contract to induce the retailer to...