贸易信用交易下的保险投资策略研究

贸易信用融资被广泛应用于解决中小企业融资困境,而保险正成为解决贸易信用融资风险的重要手段。本文站在核心企业角度,探究贸易信用融资保险的运营策略,运用Stackelberg博弈分析方法分别建立并比较了贸易信用融资、贸易信用融资保险、资金约束无融资、资金充足四类优化模型,探究了博弈均衡下的最优运营决策,并分析了零售商初始资金、生产商风险态度等关键参数的影响。研究表明:融资不仅对供应链有利,还能同时实现生产商及零售商共赢;当生产商风险厌恶程度、保险市场竞争程度较高,零售商初始资金较低时,融资保险能够为生产商及供应链创造价值,否则生产商应当放弃投保。研究结论为工业界合理且高效开展贸易信用融资保险运营提供了策略指导和管理启示。     

存货质押融资模式下的供应链协调

针对供应商、零售商和银行组成的供应链金融系统,研究了存货质押融资模式下的供应链协调。零售商作为中小企业,资金有限,需要向银行申请贷款,然而零售商信用较低难以获得融资。供应商作为供应链的核心企业,采用含有回购价格和回购比例的回购契约为零售商提供担保,使得零售商融资得以实现。分析了不确定需求下供应链金融系统,供应链以及零售商的最优决策,给出了融资情况下供应链协调的条件,指出了在供应链协调情况下批发价格和回购策略对供应链收益分配的影响,说明了回购的作用:一方面使零售商易于获得银行融资,另一方面使供应链协调得以实现,指出了质押率、贷款利率和零售商自有资金等参数对最优决策的影响。数值算例验证了理论分析结果。     

考虑风险规避的供应链融资与信用保险组合模型研究

针对供应链的资金约束问题,考虑了由一个资金约束的零售商、资金充足的供应商、风险规避型银行以及保险公司组成的供应链融资系统,分别构建了风险规避型银行融资模型以及银行融资与信用保险的组合模型,给出了两种模型中供应链融资系统成员的最优决策。研究表明:与传统风险规避型的银行融资模型相比,银行融资与信用保险的组合模型能够有效地增加零售商的融资规模,并降低银行的损失风险,从而信用保险能够给整个供应链融资系统带来严格帕累托改进。最后,通过数值算例说明了研究结论的有效性。     

Effects of risk aversion and decision preference on equilibriums in supply chain finance incorporating bank credit with credit guarantee

We constructed a Stackelberg game in a supply chain finance (SCF) system including a manufacturer, a capital‐constrained retailer, and a bank that provides loans on the basis of the manufacturer's credit guarantee. To emphasize the financial service providers' risks, we assumed that both the bank and the manufacturer are risk‐averse and formulated trade‐off objective functions for both of them as the convex combination of the expected profit and conditional value‐at‐risk. To explore the effects of the risk preferences and decision preferences on SCF equilibriums, we mathematically analyzed the optimal order quantities, wholesale prices, and interest rates under different risk preference scenarios and performed numerical analyses to quantify the effects. We found that incorporating bank credit with a credit guarantee can effectively balance the retailer's financing risk between the bank and the manufacturer through interest rate charging and wholesale pricing. Moreover, SCF equilibriums with risk aversion are highly affected by the degree of both the lender's and guarantor's risk tolerance in regard to the borrower's default probability and will be more conservative than those in the risk‐neutral cases that only maximize expected profit.     

基于随机市场需求的供应链融资模式研究

传统供应链融资模型大都在线性市场需求情形下分析零售商的商业信用、债权融资等内外部融资模式。本文同时了考虑零售商的股权融资、债权融资以及商业信用融资模式, 并引入随机市场需求因素, 针对一个供应商和两个具有资金约束零售商组成的两级供应链, 分析债权股权融资比例、商业信用等因素对零售商融资策略的影响, 并构建基于随机市场需求的融资模型;进一步, 利用数值示例和敏感性分析对此融资模型进行深入探讨。研究发现:当债权融资比例小于某临界值时, 零售商债权融资比例与订购量正相关, 反之债权融资比例与订购量负相关;对于一个服从均匀分布函数的随机市场需求而言, 若供应链采用外部融资模式, 那么随着其债权融资比例的增大, 利润将逐渐增加;若零售商采用商业信用融资模式, 那么其融资利率与利润负相关。相关研究结论对于供应链上中小企业融资模式的选择具有重要理论指导意义和实际引用价值。     

基于M-CVaR和生产资金约束的供应链协调研究

本文针对供应商面临生产资金约束的情况,在需求随机条件下研究了由一个风险中性零售商和一个具有风险偏好的供应商组成的二级供应链的协调问题。文章在零售商享有批发价折扣的提前支付和供应商银行信贷两种融资方式下,分别建立了零售商的最优决策模型以及基于M-CVaR测度工具的供应链整体订购决策模型,并给出了采用两种不同融资模式时零售商和供应链整体的最优订购量以及供应链的协调条件,分析了供应商的风险偏好对供应链整体最优决策及协调条件的影响。最后通过算例验证了文章的主要结论。研究表明,当提前支付价格折扣大于临界值时,零售商会选择提前支付货款;提前支付模式下供应链整体的最优订购量大于银行信贷模式;随着供应商的风险偏好由风险规避向风险喜好转变,供应链整体的最优订购量逐渐增大。     

资金约束下基于CVaR的供应链协调性研究与融资策略选择

在零售商的资金约束下,供应商愿意提供贸易信用融资或者信用担保下的银行贷款。在考虑双方均为风险规避型的情况下采用CVaR风险度量方法建立了双方以及供应链的风险收益值模型,给出了两种融资模式下的供应链协调条件,最优订货量以及批发价格,并且研究了银行贷款利率对供应链协调以及供应商融资方式选择的影响。结果表明实现供应链协调的条件取决于生产成本、银行利率以及双方的风险规避程度,不同的银行利率会导致实现供应链协调的条件不同,供应商将根据双方风险规避程度选择提供给零售商的融资方式。     

供应商回购承诺下的销售商存货质押融资决策

研究由一个供应商和销售商组成的供应链。销售商为中小企业,在受资金约束时无法通过自身信用获得所需融资,此时供应商可以为销售商贷款提供担保以提高其融资授信额度。本文采用销售商违约后剩余质押物的回购率来衡量供应商对融资风险的分担程度,对参与各方的存货质押融资决策进行了深入研究。结果表明:供应商的回购承诺提高了银行利润,在一定条件下提高了银行的质押率;并且,有回购承诺的融资决策在市场前景乐观情况下可以有效缓解销售商的融资困境。     

考虑零售商促销策略的供应链融资及运营策略研究

当零售商的促销策略影响商品市场需求时,本文将促销分摊决策嵌入到经典报童模型,在银行信用与商业信用两种不同的融资模式下,对供应商及供应链整体的利润进行分析。研究发现:当零售商的行为对市场需求有影响时,商业信用在一定程度上减少了供应链的融资成本,增加了供应链的利润;核心企业的融资策略与自身成本及促销分摊策略有关;商业信用对供应链资本配置及零售商的激励,受供应商生产成本及激励策略的影响;商业信用在一定程度上减少了双重边际化效应。     

Trade credit for supply chain coordination

Trade-credit is a seller’s short-term loan to the buyer, allowing the buyer to delay payment of an invoice. It has been the largest source of working capital for a majority of business-to-business firms in the United States. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain trade-credit, mainly from finance perspectives. It has also been an important issue in supply chain management. Surprisingly, most literature in supply chain management has examined the retailer’s stocking policies given a supplier’s trade-credit. This paper attempts to shed light on trade-credit from a supplier’s perspective, and presents it as a tool for supply chain coordination. Specifically, we explicitly assume firms’ financial needs for inventory. Following a Newsvendor framework, we assume that the supplier grants trade-credit and markdown allowance. Given the supplier’s offer, the retailer determines order quantity and the financing option for the inventory, either trade-credit or direct financing from a financial institution. Our result shows that the supplier’s markdown allowance alone cannot fully coordinate the supply chain if the retailer employs direct financing. Positive financing costs call for trade-credit in order to subsidize the retailer’s costs of inventory financing. Using trade-credit in addition to markdown allowance, the supplier fully coordinates the retailer’s decisions for the largest joint profit, and extracts a greater portion of the maximized joint profit.     

考虑成员风险态度的零售商资金约束闭环供应链定价与回收决策

针对由制造商、回收商和资金约束的零售商组成的三级闭环供应链,考虑供应链成员面对市场需求不确定时表现出不同的风险态度,研究了闭环供应链的定价与回收决策问题。首先给出了产品的市场需求函数与回收商的回收成本函数;然后基于均值-方差法,构建了各成员和闭环供应链的效用函数;进一步地,依据博弈论的思想,确定了不同渠道权力结构下的最优零售价格、最优回收率和最优批发价格;最后分析了闭环供应链成员风险态度和贷款利率对供应链最优决策和效用的影响。研究表明,成员风险态度和贷款利率能够影响闭环供应链最优决策和效用,其中,风险规避的零售商和制造商对闭环供应链其他成员均有利,但是对自身和闭环供应链不利;风险规避的回收商对闭环供应链成员均不利;贷款利率的增长会降低成员和闭环供应链的效用。     

预付款融资下期权契约的协调研究

本文研究零售商占主导、供应商自有资金有限的二级供应链如何通过契约实现协调的问题。在预付款融资的基础上加入期权契约方法,构建用于预付款融资的期权契约模型,并求解出该模型下所能协调供应链的契约参数与此时零售商供应商双方的最优决策系统。研究表明当供应商自有资金大于等于某临界值时通过预付款融资下的期权契约可实现供应链协调。若小于则无法通过该契约协调,并且供应商自有资金约束越大,零售商最优订购数量越多,同时供应商的最优生产数量随着自有资金的减少而减少,供应链的参与者及整个供应链的利润也随着供应商自有资金的减少单调递减;另外,相比于无融资下的期权契约,预付款模式能提高零售商、供应商以及整个供应链的收益。     

零售商采购资金约束下第三方再制造闭环供应链决策研究

在原制造商有充足资金而零售商无资本禀赋的情形下,研究再制造商为零售商提供和不提供商业信用时闭环供应链的决策问题。研究发现,再制造商提供商业信用时,如果再制造商需要向原制造商借款维持企业运作,那么原制造商会提高专利授权费用;再制造商不提供商业信用、零售商未寻求外部融资时,再制造商会被淘汰,基于收益共享契约,闭环供应链能够实现协调运作;再制造商不提供商业信用、零售商通过银行贷款和股权融资外部融资时,随着股权融资比例系数的增加,零售商利润先增加后减少,再制造商利润增加,原制造商利润减少,整个供应链系统利润增加。     

预付款融资下基于改进收益共享与回购联合契约的双渠道供应链协调研究

随机需求下,考虑了制造商存在资金约束的双渠道供应链在采用预付款融资时,如何实现供应链协调的问题。在制造商为主方的Stackelberg博弈下,研究了制造商和零售商分散决策时的最优库存决策问题,并通过设计改进收益共享与回购联合契约使得供应链达到协调。在此基础上,讨论了供应链的帕累托改进区间。最后,通过算例验证了联合契约对双渠道供应链协调及帕累托改进的有效性,并分析了契约参数和融资参数对供应链的影响。     

Study on the coordination contract in supply chain under trade credit based on risk compensation

Trade credit changes the inventory risk between supplier and retailer. This leads to failure in the coordination of the supply chain. Considering that the supplier bears the retailer’s inventory risk under the credit condition, in this paper, the contract is constructed by combining the risk compensation and quantity discount contract to re-coordinate the supply chain and analyze the contract. The results show that the contract can achieve voluntary supply chain coordination; and when the seller’s funds is within a certain range, the coordinate contract can perform in the form of the wholesale price contract, and the wholesale price is influenced by its own funds and product value. In the end, a numerical example is given to verify this conclusion.     

Call,put and bidirectional option contracts in agricultural supply chains with sales effort

This paper develops option contracts in a supplier-retailer agricultural supply chain where the market demand depends on sales effort. First, we examine a benchmark case of integrated supply chain with the loss rate. Second, we introduce three coordinating option contracts led by the supplier to reduce the retailer's risk, where the call option contract can reduce the shortage risk, the put option contract can reduce the inventory risk and the bidirectional option contract can reduce the bilateral risk. We find that both the optimal initial order quantity and the optimal option quantity increase with the sales effort and the option price will balance the influence of the loss rate on supply chain coordination. Furthermore, the bidirectional option price is the highest while its option quantity is the least, and the put option initial order quantity is the highest. Third, we also consider an option contract led by the retailer to reduce the supplier's wholesale risk. Among the above four option contracts, we find that the option quantity led by the retailer is the highest. Finally, the numerical examples present the impact of the parameters on the optimal decisions, and provide practical managerial insights to reduce the different risk in the agricultural supply chain.     

产需不确定下面向资金约束供应商的供应链融资策略研究

以包含一个供应商和一个分销商的供应链为研究对象,其中分销商面临市场需求不确定性,供应商存在资金约束且面临产出不确定性。 提出期望利率的概念,研究银行贷款期望利率一定的情况下,供应链银行融资最优策略。 构建了供应链预付款融资机制,在此基础上研究预付款模式下供应链的融资与生产订购的最优策略,并讨论了预付款期望利率的可行范围。 研究表明,预付款融资模式下,分销商愿意以低于银行贷款利率的期望利率向供应商提供预付款; 存在预付款期望利率可行区间,实现预付款协调模式下供应链系统的帕累托改进。     

资金约束下三层供应链的融资和定价决策研究

实际生活中,供应链的资金管理是极其复杂多变的,现有学者关于供应链定价问题研究多以简单的二层供应链为基础,脱离了实际可用性。本文将二层供应链拓展成三层供应链,以单一供应商、单一生产商和单一零售商组成的三层供应链为研究对象,在市场风险中性的假设条件下,探究在供应商拥有不同初始资金约束情形下的供应链融资与最优定价决策,弥补了原先模型使用范围的狭隘性。通过模型的建立与数值分析显示,当供应商存在资金约束时,供应链融资能够使整条供应链上参与者的最优利润增加,从而创造价值。     

A Production Lot-Size Model for Perishable Items Under Two Level Trade Credit Policy for a Retailer with a Powerful Position in a Supply Chain System

This paper investigates a production lot-size inventory model for perishable items under two levels of trade credit for a retailer to reflect the supply chain management situation. We assume that the retailer maintains a powerful position and can obtain full trade credit offered by supplier yet retailer just offers the partial trade credit to customers. Under these conditions, retailer can obtain the most benefits. Then, we investigate the retailer’s inventory policy as a cost minimization problem to determine the retailer’s inventory policy. A rigorous mathematical analysis is used to prove that the annual total variable cost for the retailer is convex, that is, unique and global-optimal solution exists. Mathematical theorems are developed to efficiently determine the optimal ordering policies for the retailer. The results in this paper generalize some already published results. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the theorems and obtain a lot of managerial phenomena.     

考虑RFID应用的资金约束供应链订购决策研究

RFID技术的应用在有效降低商品库存损耗率的同时,也增加了供应链企业的运营成本,尤其是具有资金压力的供应链中小企业。在零售商具有资金约束的二级供应链下分析RFID技术的应用对资金约束供应链绩效的影响,通过构建贸易信贷下基于批发价合同的Stackelberg博弈模型,对比采用RFID前后资金约束供应链成员的均衡决策及期望收益,探讨了该供应链采用RFID的必要条件。结果显示当RFID标签成本低于某个阈值,或RFID库存损耗恢复率高于某个阈值时,供应链成员会选择采用RFID。此外,当RFID单位标签成本或零售商标签成本分摊系数较低,或RFID库存损耗恢复率较高时,制造商会提供比不采用RFID时更高的批发价;在采用RFID的条件下,零售商订购数量低于不采用RFID时的数量。通过设计收益分享契约实现了采用RFID时资金约束供应链的协调。