基于资金约束零售商的双层混合渠道供应链运作策略

针对一个双渠道制造商和一个存在资金约束的双渠道零售商组成的双层混合渠道供应链,研究了延期支付与金融机构借贷两种不同融资模式下,供应链博弈均衡策略和收益.指出在两种不同的融资模式下,供应链中三个渠道产品定价均高于零售商无资金约束时三个渠道产品定价,即零售商由于资金约束而导致的融资成本最终转嫁给了下游消费者,由消费者买单.进一步,研究指出供应链渠道间价格替代性的增强对零售商和供应链总收益始终产生消极的影响,但对制造商收益并非始终是有害的,一定条件下会促进制造商收益的增加.对比不同融资模式下各主体利润,指出当制造商延期支付时间长度敏感系数相对较小时,零售商会倾向选择延期支付合同模式;否则零售商倾向选择外部金融机构借贷融资模式.     

风险规避型零售商资金约束下双渠道闭环供应链的定价决策

针对单一风险中性制造商和单一风险规避零售商组成的双渠道闭环供应链,建立制造商主导的Stackelberg博弈模型,讨论零售商分别通过银行贷款和延期支付解决资金约束问题时,各参与方的最优定价,分析回收率和零售商风险规避程度对决策结果的影响,并比较两种融资方式中决策结果的差异。研究表明:在双渠道闭环供应链中,零售商的资金约束不会影响批发价格、直销价格和零售价格随回收率的变化趋势。随着零售商风险规避程度的提高,银行贷款中批发价格的变化还与利率有关,直销价格始终降低;延期支付中批发价格始终提高,直销价格与之无关。当融资利率相等时,银行贷款中的批发价格始终高于延期支付,而直销价格和零售价格的相对大小还受利率和回收率的影响。     

资金成本下延迟支付期限的收益分享契约

针对由单一制造商和单一零售商组成的供应链系统,建立了随机需求下考虑有资金成本延迟支付期限的收益分享契约模型,研究两种决策(分散化和集中化)下,延迟支付期限是如何影响资金约束零售商的最优订货数量以及供应链系统的利润.分析表明,不管是分散化还是集中化决策,考虑有资金成本延迟支付期限的收益分享契约使供应链系统的最优订货量和利润都增大.最后,运用数值分析验证了结论.     

公平关切下考虑成本分担的闭环供应链回收与定价决策

文章针对同时进行新产品和再制造产品的生产活动的制造商和同时进行销售和回收活动的零售商组成的闭环供应链系统,在考虑闭环供应链中公平关切行为和成本分担的情形下分析零售商公平关切、制造商的成本分担对供应链系统决策的影响.研究表明:当零售商公平中性时,制造商的成本分担与零售商的回收率正相关,且制造商的成本分担能够提高回收率、降低制造商向零售商支付回收产品的单位转让价格;当制造商不参与回收成本分担时,零售商的公平关切程度与零售商的利润正相关,与回收率、制造商的利润均为负相关,且并不会影响供应链系统的总利润;当公平关切行为和成本分担契约同时存在时,成本分担契约对供应链决策的影响远小于公平关切行为对供应链决策的影响.最后,通过算例分析验证了以上结论.     

零售商资金约束下两级供应链的延期支付与协调策略研究

本文研究了随机需求下两级供应链的延期支付问题，其中供应商作为主导者将首先设置延期支付利率，而受资金约束的零售商作为追随者将根据利率来确定订货量。通过构建Newsvendor模型对供应链各成员的利润进行了分析，并基于Stackelberg博弈研究了两级供应链下的延迟支付策略，得到了零售商的最优订货量及供应商的最优利率。此外，我们还研究了延期支付条件下的供应链协调问题，分别探讨了产品回购契约和收益共享契约下的供应链协调。研究结果表明：只有当供应商设置的利率低于特定阈值时，受资金约束的零售商才会采用延期支付，否则零售商会将全部初始资金用于采购而不采用延期支付；在延期支付条件下，提高利率将导致零售商订货量减少，并且供应商设置的利率不会随零售商的初始资金增大；延期支付只能部分协调供应链，同时在延期支付条件下，通过产品回购契约无法实现供应链的完全协调；在延期支付条件下，存在关于收益占比的帕累托改进区间，使得收益共享契约在该区间内能够实现供应链协调。最后，我们通过数值实验对研究结论进行了验证。     

带有资金约束的风险厌恶零售商的双渠道供应链运作策略

在对称信息框架下,针对一个风险中性的双渠道制造商和一个存在资金约束的风险厌恶零售商组成的供应链系统,基于Stackelberg博弈理论构建了两种不同的融资模式下(延期支付模式与金融机构借贷模式)双渠道供应链的最优运作决策模型。通过模型分析,分别给出了两种不同融资模式下零售商和制造商的最优运作策略。研究发现,当零售商资金充足或存在资金约束但通过两种不同融资模式融资时,风险中性的双渠道制造商都更愿意和具有风险厌恶特性的零售商合作。当零售商资金不足时,制造商延期支付合同的设计可以有效解决零售商资金不足问题,实现供应链无资金约束时的收益。进一步研究指出,尽管金融机构提供借贷,但在一定条件下,零售商始终不会选择金融机构借贷模式。数值例子发现当制造商对延期支付时间长度敏感性很低时,零售商会偏爱金融机构借贷融资模式。否则,零售商始终偏爱延期支付模式。     

碳交易规制下信息不对称供应链的减排和低碳推广博弈研究

论文在碳交易规制下,研究单一制造商和双零售商组成的供应链减排与低碳推广决策以及零售商对制造商的成本信息分享问题,分析了零售商对制造商分享成本信息的条件,及不同情形下的制造商减排和零售商低碳推广策略。研究发现:零售商的最优低碳推广水平只与自身相关参数有关,零售商只有在自身低碳推广效率足够高时才会与制造商分享信息;制造商最优减排量随消费者低碳意识、碳交易价格、零售商低碳推广效率及其不确定性增大而提高,随零售商之间竞争程度提高而降低;无论零售商是否对制造商分享成本信息,供应链成员的最优利润随零售商之间竞争程度提高而增加,随消费者低碳意识、碳交易价格提高而提高;零售商低碳推广效率的不确定性越大则制造商的最优利润越低,零售商的最优利润越高;仅一家零售商分享成本信息时,制造商无法通过转移支付使另一家零售商与其分享信息。     

考虑低碳偏好及碳减排的闭环供应链回收及专利授权策略

研究考虑消费者低碳偏好的闭环供应链回收、碳减排与专利授权决策问题。分别构建制造商回收再制造、零售商回收再制造支付固定专利费、零售商回收再制造支付单位专利费的闭环供应链模型,分析低碳消费者比例、普通消费者对再制品的接受程度及碳权交易价格,对企业回收、碳减排及定价决策的影响,并比较了三种模式下企业及供应链的利润。研究表明：随着市场中低碳消费者比例及普通消费者对再制品接受程度的提高,总会使得回收率及碳减排率增加;碳权交易价格的提高,也会促使制造商提高碳减排率;对制造商来说,其利润在零售商回收再制造且支付固定专利费用下实现最优。从自身利润最优的角度出发,作为领导者的制造商将总是选择零售商回收再制造且支付固定专利费用模式。     

产能约束对闭环供应链回收渠道选择的影响

在制造商存在产能约束下,建立了再制造闭环供应链回收渠道决策的Stackelberg博弈模型,得出了三种回收渠道下的回收率、零售价以及制造商、零售商和供应链的利润,分析了制造商的生产能力对回收渠道决策的影响。研究表明:存在产能约束时,制造商回收渠道中的回收率总是最高的,这与无产能约束时零售商回收渠道中回收率最高的情况明显不同;同时,若废旧产品回收转移支付价格较低,制造商会选择自己回收,此时的零售价最低,制造商、零售商和供应链利润最高;若回收转移支付价格较高,制造商会选择零售商回收,此时的零售价最低,制造商和供应链利润最高。     

考虑服务负溢出效应的双渠道供应链定价策略研究

在由单一制造商和单一零售商构成的双渠道供应链系统中,考虑网络渠道提供服务所产生的负溢出效应,分别从集中决策和分散决策研究其对供应链定价及服务策略的影响,并提出协调契约改善供应链绩效.研究得出:负溢出效应将激励制造商对于服务水平的提高,但也会降低整体供应链的利润水平;而采用两部定价契约能够改善供应链绩效使整体利润达到最优,实现制造商和零售商的帕累托改进.     

Economic order quantity under conditionally permissible delay in payments

Within the economic order quantity (EOQ) framework, the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the retailer’s optimal replenishment policy under permissible delay in payments. All previously published articles dealing with optimal order quantity with permissible delay in payments assumed that the supplier only offers the retailer fully permissible delay in payments if the retailer ordered a sufficient quantity. Otherwise, permissible delay in payments would not be permitted. However, in this paper, we want to extend this extreme case by assuming that the supplier would offer the retailer partially permissible delay in payments when the order quantity is smaller than a predetermined quantity. Under this condition, we model the retailer’s inventory system as a cost minimization problem to determine the retailer’s optimal inventory cycle time and optimal order quantity. Three theorems are established to describe the optimal replenishment policy for the retailer. Some previously published results of other researchers can be deduced as special cases. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate all these theorems and to draw managerial insights.     

The impact of sharing customer returns information in a supply chain with and without a buyback policy

In this paper, we examine a single period problem in a supply chain in which a Stackelberg manufacturer supplies a product to a retailer who faces customer returns and demand uncertainty. We show that the manufacturer incurs a significant profit loss with and without a buyback policy if it fails to account for customer returns in the wholesale price decision. Under the assumption that the retailer is better informed than the manufacturer on customer returns information, we show that without a buyback policy, the retailer prefers not to share if the manufacturer overestimates while it prefers to share customer returns information if the manufacturer underestimates this information. If the manufacturer offers a buyback policy, we have the opposite results. We also discuss incentives to share the customer returns information and some of the issues that are raised in sharing this information.     

The role of retailer’s performance in optimal wholesale price discount policies

The main goal of this paper is to model the effects of wholesale price control on manufacturer’s profit, taking explicitly into account the retailer’s sales motivation and performance. We consider a stylized distribution channel where a manufacturer sells a single kind of good to a single retailer. Wholesale price discounts are assumed to increase the retailer’s motivation thus improving sales. We study the manufacturer’s profit maximization problem as an optimal control model where the manufacturer’s control is the discount on wholesale price and retailer’s motivation is one of the state variables. In particular in the paper we prove that an increasing discount policy is optimal for the manufacturer when the retailer is not efficient while efficient retailers may require to decrease the trade discounts at the end of the selling period. Computational experiments point out how the discount on wholesale price passed by the retailer to the market (pass-through) influences the optimal profit of the manufacturer.     

信息熵增量最小化准则在供应链中的应用

本文研究了在考虑利润最大化准则和信息熵增量最小准则下，既能满足了利润最大化，又要增加利润可得性，销售商如何确定订购量的问题。数字实验表明：考虑双重准则得到的策略比仅考虑利润最大化准则得到的策略更好，可以使供应链、销售商及制造商都受益。     

考虑消费者退货的双渠道订货量决策研究

在考虑消费者退货下,构建由制造商和零售商组成的二级供应链模型,研究了双方的订货量决策问题,并分析不同策略以及决策顺序对均衡结果和制造商开通直销渠道的影响。研究发现:在单渠道中,提供退款保证可提高订货量、制造商和零售商利润。当直销成本较大时,制造商将不开通直销渠道;提供退款保证有利于制造商开通直销渠道。在双渠道中,提供退款保证能够提高直销量、总订货量和制造商利润;直销量、总订货量、制造商利润和总利润都随直销成本递减;在顺序决策下,制造商利润和总利润更高。     

Coordination of a three-level supply chain (supplier–manufacturer–retailer) with permissible delay in payments and price discounts

Different coordination mechanisms are used to manage supply chains. This paper investigates a coordination of a three-level supply chain (supplier–manufacturer–retailer) by coupling two well-known trade credit mechanisms that are widely used in practice, permissible delay in payments and price discounts, where the length of the delay period and discounts offered along the supply chain are decision variables. The paper investigates nine different cases of delay in payments along with eight cases of price discounts among the three players in the supply chain. A numerical example was presented to compare between the cases considered. Also, extensive sensitivity analyses were performed to study the effect of changing the model parameters on the optimal decisions. In addition, we point out the limitations of each model developed in this paper. The numerical examples and the sensitivity analyses conclude that the coupling of delay in payments and price discounts increases the profit of the supply chain more than using only a single mechanism at a time.     

Cooperative advertising in a distribution channel with fairness concerns

Cooperative (co-op) advertising has been widely used in practice and employed as a strategy to improve the performance of a distribution channel. It is known from the existing models that co-op advertising could not achieve the channel coordination (i.e., maximize the total channel profit). In this paper, we consider a distribution channel consisting of a single manufacturer and a single retailer, and investigate the effect of the retailer’s fairness concerns. Applying the equilibrium analysis, we obtain the following results: (1) Channel coordination can be achieved if the retailer has fairness concerns and model parameters satisfy certain conditions. (2) Although both channel members become better off with co-op advertising if neither channel member has fairness concerns, we find situations where co-op advertising brings detrimental effects to the retailer if the retailer has fairness concerns. (3) The retailer’s fairness concerns may increase or decrease the equilibrium participation rate, the equilibrium advertising effort, and the equilibrium profit of the manufacturer and the whole channel. (4) We identify the conditions under which the effectiveness of co-op advertising can be improved or reduced by the retailer’s fairness concerns. As long as co-op advertising can bring extra profit to the manufacturer, the retailer’s fairness concerns could improve the effectiveness of the co-op advertising. (5) There exists a Pareto improvement for the profits of both the manufacturer and the retailer when a retailer without fairness concerns becomes fair-minded.     

Coordinating order quantity decisions in the supply chain contract under random demand

In this paper, we are concerned with the coordinating quantity decision problem in a supply chain contract. The supply chain contract is composed of one manufacturer and one retailer to meet the random demand of a single product with a short lifecycle. Our analysis show that the retailer expects to obtain higher profit under proper ordering policies, which can also maximize the expected profit of the supply chain. The manufacturer may induce the retailer to order the coordinated quantity by adjusting the unit return price. As a result, the supply chain is expected to achieve the optimal expected profit.     

Pricing and advertisement in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain

We use a game theoretical approach to study pricing and advertisement decisions in a manufacturer–retailer supply chain when price discounts are offered by both the manufacturer and retailer. When the manufacturer is the leader of the game, we obtained Stackelberg equilibrium with manufacturer’s local allowance, national brand name investment, manufacturer’s preferred price discount, retailer’s price discount, and local advertising expense. For the special case of two-stage equilibrium when the manufacturer’s price discount is exogenous, we found that the retailer is willing to increase local advertising expense if the manufacturer increases local advertising allowance and provides deeper price discount, or if the manufacturer decreases its brand name investment. When both the manufacturer and retailer have power, Nash equilibrium in a competition game is obtained. The comparison between the Nash equilibrium and Stackelberg equilibrium shows that the manufacturer always prefers Stackelberg equilibrium, but there is no definitive conclusion for the retailer. The bargaining power can be used to determine the profit sharing between the manufacturer and the retailer. Once the profit sharing is determined, we suggest a simple contract to help the manufacturer and retailer obtain their desired profit sharing.     

Manufacturer's pricing strategy and return policy for a single-period commodity

This paper presents a model for designing the pricing and return-credit strategy for a monopolistic manufacturer of single-period commodities. That is, given the unit manufacturing cost and the unit retail sale price, the manufacturer determines: (i) the unit price C to be charged against the retailer; and (ii) the unit credit V to be given to the retailer for units returned. While the manufacturer is allowed to set C and V, the order quantity Q is set by the retailer in response to the manufacturer's C and V. Among the unexpected findings derived from our model are: (i) unless an external force supports the retailer, otherwise the manufacturer can usually design a (C,V)-scheme that gives himself the lion's share of the profit; (ii) depending on the risk attitudes of the manufacturer and the retailer, the optimal return policy can range from “no returns allowed” to “unlimited returns with full credit”; (iii) instead of losing his profit share to the retailer, a return-credits agreement can often be manipulated by a shrewd manufacturer to increase his profit.