Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the supply chain coordination with contracts.
Numerous supply chain models are discussed. In each model, the supply chain optimal …

To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented various initiatives such
as outsourced manufacturing and product variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable …

Platform operations are very common in the sharing economy. Nowadays, retailers can sell
the end‐of‐season product leftovers to platforms which offer product rental services to the …

We consider a simple supply-chain contract in which a manufacturer sells to a retailer facing
a newsvendor problem and the lone contract parameter is a wholesale price. We develop a …

Purpose–A growing body of literature has begun to recognise that in the era of supply chain
management it is important to look beyond the flexible factory to the flexible supply chain …

A channel rebate is a payment from a manufacturer to a retailer based on retailer sales to
end consumers. Two common forms of channel rebates are linear rebates, in which the …

Consider a supply chain consisting of two independent agents, a supplier (eg, a
manufacturer) and its customer (eg, a retailer), the latter in turn serving an uncertain market …

Advances in information technology, particularly in the e‐business arena, are enabling firms
to rethink their supply chain strategies and explore new avenues for inter‐organizational …

“Supply Chain Risk Management is an issue that many companies face and yet few
companies know how to deal with it in a systematic and pragmatic manner. While avoiding …

In this paper, we investigate the equilibrium behavior of decentralized supply chains with
competing retailers under demand uncertainty. We also design contractual arrangements …