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components consist of service capacity at the retailer and products from the suppliers. We demonstrate our salvage manipulation …
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The purpose of this paper is to present a model for maximizing a retailer's total expected profit using actual motor carrier freight rates and estimates of environmental costs associated with the transportation of a seasonal product. It is assumed that a single seasonal product is sold at a...
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We study a simple coordination problem to understand the difference between centralized and decentralized economic … system takes less time than the decentralized system to create coordination among constituent parts. Decentralization is …
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presenting an overview of the literature that shows various coordination mechanisms but no backup agreement proposals for supply … chain coordination, this paper develops a decentralized three-echelon supply chain facing stochastic customer demand and … includes the backup agreement as a coordination mechanism to guarantee a balanced relationship between the chain members. The …
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The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of retailers and assigning it to an intermediary increases the value of a supply chain when demand volatility is high. This is because an intermediary can help solve two incentive problems associated with retailers' inventory control...
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The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
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The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive of exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
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